AJ Family Symposium - Family Law Updates 2025

Friday 14 November 2025 (Paris, Marriott Opéra)

Our Associate Esther COURIAT from the Family Law Department at 99 AVOCATS ASSOCIÉS had the pleasure of attending the 11th edition of the AJ Famille Symposium - Family Law News 2025, organised by Lefebvre Dalloz Compétences and the AJ Famille magazine.

This annual event brings together practitioners and academics to analyse major reforms and current French case law in family matters.

Comparative law analysis is of particular interest in Monaco, given the frequency of cross-border family cases.

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The following topics were discussed in particular:

• The maintenance obligation of parents/children (draft law No. 1879 aimed at exempting maintenance payments from tax and combating the precarious situation of single-parent families, tabled in the Frechn National Assembly on 30 September 2025).
• Current issues relating to protected adults and the status of the law on end-of-life care (draft law No. 661 on the right to assisted dying, adopted at first reading by the National Assembly on 27 May 2025 and forwarded to the Senate on 27 May 2025; at the same time, draft law No. 662, which aims to guarantee equal access for all to support and palliative care, is being debated);
• Current developments in inheritance and gift law, judicial partition to resolve disputes between heirs and ensure a fair and balanced distribution of assets (draft law No. 823 aimed at simplifying the process of ending blocked joint ownership of inherited property and addressing the issue of vacant housing, adopted at first reading by the National Assembly on 6 March 2025, discussion in public session by the Senate on 18 December 2025);
• Family proceedings (Decree No. 2025-660 of 18 July 2025 reforming conventional investigation and recodifying amicable dispute resolution methods applicable to proceedings in progress since its entry into force on 1 September 2025: it establishes, in particular, a new guiding principle of cooperation between the judge and the parties aimed at strengthening the incentive to use amicable dispute resolution methods, and establishes the conventional investigation of civil proceedings as the principle, with judicial investigation becoming the exception).

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