Maître Flore de SAINT MAURICE
Specialist in wealth and tax advisory
As an associate partner of the SARL LAIDET & SAINT MAURICE since October 2024, Maître Flore de SAINT MAURICE devotes most of her practice to personal-wealth advisory work for families. A graduate of Université Panthéon-Assas and Université Descartes, holder of the higher diploma in notarial practice (DSN), she completed her training with two years as a wealth-management analyst in private banking. This step aside from the notarial profession, unusual in such a career, shapes the way she approaches advisory work: taking the time for a proper assessment, comparing several costed scenarios, and grounding her recommendations in a hands-on knowledge of financial products and their taxation.
Returning to the profession, she founded her own notarial firm in Antony (Hauts-de-Seine) in 2013, which she ran for eleven years before joining Maître Virginie LAIDET in Paris. This entrepreneurial experience gave her a clear sense of what daily file management, running a firm and personal attention to each family require.
A practice rooted in advisory work
For Maître de SAINT MAURICE, the notary is first and foremost a trusted wealth advisor, not merely a drafter of deeds. The role is to clarify the choices clients face, with a long-term and family-coherent perspective. This calls for availability, plain language, rigorous reasoning, and ongoing dialogue with the family’s other advisors (lawyers, accountants, wealth managers).
She receives clients at the firm, by video-conference or by phone, in French and in English.
Attention to complex wealth matters
Maître de SAINT MAURICE regularly handles cases involving multi-layered wealth concerns, whether by the nature of the assets or by the personal stakes that underlie them.
Areas of practice
- Family law: marriage contracts, change of matrimonial regime, gift between spouses, civil partnership (PACS), consent to adoption, consent to medically assisted reproduction.
- Divorce, organisation of separation for cohabiting or PACS couples, and the related division of assets.
- Estate work: opening of succession, inheritance-tax return, partition, exit from joint ownership, family mediation, international dimensions.
- Lifetime transfers: simple gifts, gift-partitions (donation-partage), trans-generational gift-partitions, bare-ownership and usufruct arrangements, Dutreil pact.
- Wealth-holding entities and wealth advisory: family SCI, holding structures, family-business transfers, prior wealth-review advice.
- Real-estate sales and co-ownership matters.
Member of the communication committee of the Chambre des notaires de Paris.