LaBouche

Can anyone tell me if they know of an English-speaking advocate (solicitor) in Dept 66...Perpignan region? Thankyou.

If you already have a pension scheme in the UK then you can tell them to take a hike. Under European law ANY pension scheme from within the EU is acceptable and is all you need. Just keep telling them that. We did. Eventually after two years of asking us to provide documents that do not exist outside France they gave up. This was 9 years ago. The French seem to think that the documents they issue are also issued by all countries around the world....you have to stand up to them and explain this is not so. There is a point where you have to say 'Non, c'est impossible'.

Good luck to your parents - I wish we had known about vice cache when we bought our French property eight years ago, we were living in it only a week before a myriad of little horrors began revealing themselves. We had spent months getting all the details correct, we speak competent French too, asked every question imaginable of the seller and agent however you cannot enquire about things that are so well concealed can you?  The previous owner continued to live in our village after he sold it to us and actually would have made things very, very unpleasant for us had we known about post-sale buyers rights and gone after him for the money we lost repairing what he'd placed sticking plaster over; then again, we told everyone we met from then on that the property was a lemon. He was related to the Maire...