What are the succession implications of becoming a French Domicile?
A. If you are permanently resident in France, you will become domiciled under French law. On the death of one of you, then French succession law applies to your worldwide assets (except for immoveable property outside of France). This means that the children and the parents of the deceased (including children from earlier relationships) have prior rights to assets over and above the surviving spouse. These rights are not only against assets in the deceaseds sole name, but also against the deceaseds share of jointly owned assets.
