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Did your neighbor take advantage of your absence to build a wall that encroaches on your property?Your daughter will get married and would you like to give her the apartment inherited from your parents?On a daily basis, legal questions arise without anyone sometimes knowing who to contact.Between the apprehension to cross the door of a law firm or a notarial study, and the fear of an overly salty bill, your first reflex is often to search the Internet to find free answers.Result: solutions that are inevitable for an uninitiated, sometimes contradictory, and not really corresponding to your situation.

Internet having favored the circulation of legal information, but not guaranteeing its reliability, the public authorities have organized access to the law for all, regardless of the level of income.There are thus a multitude of places and different categories of professionals to help you in your efforts.

Also, to determine the service or the person who will be best suited to meet your present needs, do you ask: does your request require an urgent response?Is this an administrative, social, fiscal or judicial approach?Will an explanation by phone suffice or will an interview in person be necessary?

You need to be oriented

First gateway: the France Services network.Managed by the State, it brings together 1,300 reception points - 2,500 in 2022 - with homogeneous coverage throughout the territory.The ambition is that every citizen can go there in less than 30 minutes from his home."This is a one -stop shop for the administrative procedures of the daily life," sums up Pierre Bouillon, director of the France Services program.The network responds to 250,000 requests per month.Two agents support you in your research on legal sites (as justice.fr, the official access to justice site)), help you make your various dematerialized declarations (tax, social, etc.)) and guide you in the event of legal difficulty, dispute or offense.Their role is not to provide you with personalized information, but to present the main services to you to support you.

You will often be oriented towards one of the many "justice points" present in the territory.If you have several issues and do not know if they fall under the field of such or such professional, you can go directly."There has been a desire to simplify the network of access to law by creating a single appellation, which makes it more readable and more visible.“Justice point” encompasses all pre -existing free systems for users, coordinated by the Ministry of Justice, namely 1,748 points and relays of access to law, 147 courts of justice and law and 30 justice branchespresent on the territory, ”explains Emmanuelle Masson, spokesman for the Ministry of Justice.The whole is coordinated by the departmental councils of access to the law.Directors, available from the ministry's website, justice.fr, allow you to locate the justice point closest to you and correspond to your problem.In these places of welcome and listening, a person analyzes your request.Depending on the difficulty raised, it will guide you to suitable services, you will facilitate access to amicable settlement solutions in the event of a conflict (connection with a mediator or a conciliator)), will offer you an appointment (telephone or inperson)) with a law in law within the framework of free and confidential permanence organized in these places.

Lawyers, notaries, lawyers and associations approved by the Ministry of Justice, Delegates of the Defender of Rights and Conciliators answer all legal, social or administrative questions relating to the main areas of daily life.The interview lasts 30 minutes, the time for your interlocutor to qualify your problem in legal terms and to issue you guidance councils if your situation is very complex.

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You are looking for a lawyer

The various bars of the lawyer organize access to the law for all.Also, free and 30 -minute anonymous consultations are implemented throughout the territory.They take place in town hall, in the 164 courts or in one of the justice points.The proposed offices are either general (and in this case, the lawyer answers all questions)), or specialized (family law, real estate, work, consumption, over -indebtedness, social protection, company, etc..)).To find out the schedules and schedule a meeting, ask the bar or the town hall of your home, or go to the court closest to you.In addition, some bars organize meetings.

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This is the case for example in Paris, with the lawyer in the city.For a week, 600 lawyers deliver 30 -minute consultations free of charge at the Town Hall and in all the town halls of districts.This year, they will take place with or without an appointment, from October 4 to 10, 2021 (lawyer.Org))."This event allows a first contact with a lawyer, to show that the law is everywhere and that if we come to consult it upstream, we can avoid big difficulties," says Stéphanie Guesdon, deputy director of communication toParis bar.In addition, all year round, lawyers are provided free of charge and without appointment on the Paris Solidarity Bar bus (Barreausolidarite.Org)), aux portes de Choisy, de Clignancourt, Vanves, Clichy et Montreuil.

You need a notary

If you have a question about family, successions, real estate, you may need to use a notary.The profession has set up an information center, notaries info, reachable at 0 892 011 012.Your interlocutor has legal training and listening.The service is based on a system of questions and answers with the possibility of obtaining a solution immediately and being reassured.In 10 minutes, your law problem is qualified and a response provided.The call is anonymous."Notaries info is the need for necessary and essential to have the first elements of response. Si la problématique s’avère plus complexe, l’agent oriente le concitoyen vers la Chambre des notaires ou vers les lieux où des notaires dispensent des permanences gratuites », expose M^e Boris Vienne, porte-parole du Conseil supérieur du notariat.Notaries are always present to answer your questions as part of the various annual fairs, for example those of agriculture, marriage and real estate, and during free consultation weekends.Learn to the Chamber of Notaries in your region.

Your request is not urgent

For 10 years, clinics access to the law, attached to an educational establishment, have flourished everywhere in France.Two students, under the supervision of a lawyer and/or a teacher-researcher, give you free legal information on the problem raised, determine the stages to be implemented, envisage alternative solutions to litigation, all in thecompliance with the ethical rules of legal professions.In general, a first meeting, lasting 30 to 60 minutes, is devoted to the presentation of your request, to examine its urgent or not nature and to the verification of the absence of conflict of conflict'interests.Then count 2 to 4 weeks for studying your file.The second meeting is devoted to the issuance of information and insurance that you have understood your rights."People who come to learn about serenity, go with a better understanding of their problem, which will allow them to discuss later, if necessary, with a lawyer.They feel less dependent on him and the latter has a prepared file.Beyond his own information, the beneficiary has an important active role because he allows students to train, "notes Xavier Aurey, president and co-founder of the network of French-speaking legal clinics (clinical-legal clinics.Org)).