The LPI Avocat firm offers its expertise to support individual co-owners, Co-owners’ Associations (Syndicats des copropriétaires), property managers (syndics), and supervisory boards (conseils syndicaux) in resolving disputes and ensuring the defense of their respective rights.

Co-ownership plays a very significant role in Paris, as it concerns the vast majority of housing and is, therefore, a source of numerous conflicts—whether between the co-ownership actors themselves or between the Association and a third party.

These disputes may involve the following issues:

• Non-compliance with Co-ownership Rules by One or More Co-owners 

These disputes are the most frequent within a co-ownership. They notably concern encroachments, or even the annexation of common areas by a co-owner, disturbances caused to other occupants of the building within common areas, default on co-ownership service charge payments, or the contesting of the calculation and/or allocation of charges.

• Convening, Holding, and Contesting General Meetings

The LPI Avocat firm assists you at every stage related to the holding of the general meeting of co-owners. This includes specifying the majority or quorum applicable to a resolution, drafting a draft resolution for inclusion on the agenda of the next general meeting, and reminding parties of the rules regarding the convening of co-owners. We also handle legal actions to annul resolutions due to substantive or procedural irregularities.

• Disputes Related to Breaches by the Property Manager (Professional or Volunteer)

Litigation may arise in cases of a property manager’s failure to fulfill their obligations, lack of representation, failure to maintain the building, or absence of insurance. The LPI Avocat firm also assists Co-owners’ Associations and property managers in these types of disputes.