The office’s expertise

Areas of activity :
Family – Real Estate – Public institutions and authorities

A notary is a public, ministerial officer of the State. The notary’s role is twofold: to guarantee the legality of operations and to provide advice.

The notary executes in authentic form agreements between parties and guarantees the legality and impartiality of such agreements. The notary’s role also involves advising the public, private clients (individuals and companies) as well as public institutions and authorities.


The office provides a wide range of services, but its activities cover mainly :

• Family law and successions :
  Marriage contracts, change of matrimonial regime, civil partnerships (PACS), divorces, gifts, inter-vivos gifts, partitions, wills, powers of attorney, mandates with posthumous effects. Estate settlement: notarial deeds, real estate ownership certificates, inheritance declarations, estate settlement and distribution.
• Real estate law :
  Real estate sales, exchanges
  Real estate sales, exchanges. Deeds of loan and related guarantees: mortgages, collaterals, guarantees Various instruments creating rights in rem: easements, usufruct, obligations, perpetual leases, construction leases
• Building law :
  Co-ownership rules, division by volumes, off-plan sales and leases, real estate development contracts
• Local and urban planning laws :
  Land developments, housing schemes, various associations (urban land associations, property owners’ associations), Planning permission, pre-work or pre-division declarations, building permits Development operations (Designated Development Areas, Concessions, Urban Partnership Projects, etc.) Social and affordable housing operations, anti-speculation clauses Administrative perpetual leases, Mountain Act agreements
• Leases :
  Housing, business, commercial, rural, rehabilitation and management leases
• Real estate companies :
  Creation, contribution of assets