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Thank you all for your advice and time.

Thanks for all your help. Just one more question.   If when on the death of one partner in the marriage the other ones sells up and moves back to the UK are we still bound by any French Inheritance laws?   Sorry to keep bothering you - so many questions.!

Hi Andy thanks for you posts.   Ideally we would want our property and assets to go to a charity on the death of the second partner.   What implications would this have? Or what implications would it have if we siad it could go to our daughter.   Ultimately we really want it all to go to charity once we are both dead.  

Hi Andy thanks for you posts.   Ideally we would want our property and assets to go to a charity on th edeath of the second partner.   What implications would this have? Or what implications would it have if we siad it could go to our daughter.   Ultimately we really want it all to go to charity once we are both dead.        

We are thinking seriously about moving to France but are concerned with the French Inheritance laws. We would not want our property or assets passing to our only child on the death of one of us. Is there anyway that we as a married couple who have joint ownership in everything as well as joint bank accounts could not be subject to this on the death of one of us if we purchased a property in France.   We would want everything including property and all assets to go to the other spouse on the death of the other and not to our daughter our only child. Any advice about how we go about ensuring this would be appreciated. Unfortunately if this cannot be done we would have to give up our dream of moving to France for our retirement. it is indeed a deal breaker so we do hope it can be done.   Any help appreciated.