Legal occupations (fr)
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Conducting business in any country requires the specialist legal assistance of highly-trained, qualified professionals suitably experienced in such matters. Investors require clear, impartial advice prior to, and during, the purchase process, to avoid costly mistakes. In most common-law countries, both vendor and purchaser instruct their own legal professional to act in their interests, yet many French property purchasers fail to insist on having their own adviser. Why is this? Often, because they have been purposely misled (being told that it is the norm in France) or they allow themselves to be carried away on a wave of false promises. It is not just permitted to have your own legal advisor, it is highly recommended.
- Notaries (Notaires) are Public Officers whose main role is to draft and execute Deeds. They are civil-servants who have a monopoly on documents that must be authenticated by Deed, i. e. wills, marriage, contracts, document dealing with transfer of real property, and conveyancing. Notaries often act for both buyer and seller, which can potentially give rise to conflicts of interest. Their fees, based on a fixed scale, depend on the property's value. Notaires only get paid if a given transaction proceeds to completion.
- Solicitors (Avocats) are equally highly-trained professionals and similarly authorised to accomplish the same as a notary, plus further to the notaire, if things go wrong, they can represent a client in Court.
French notaires are generally very courteous, professional and competent, but there are situations where customers, especially non-French speakers, are experiencing difficulties: they are either being overcharged for a service, or simply left in the dark with no answer whatsoever to their queries, delays occur etc... In most cases, that situation leaves foreign customers with very little recourse against the notaire concerned.
See also
- Find the notion "Legal occupations" in the french legal internet
- Bailiff
- Lawyer
- Notary
