Matters involving family relations, such as inheritance litigations, adoption procedures, divorces, and many others, accounted for more than 18 percent of all new legal cases handled by French courts in 2023. Moreover, contractual issues were the subject of 19.3 percent of all new legal cases handled in that same year.
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Share of new legal cases handled by justice courts in France in 2023, by type
Special legal procedures, that is, ''procédures particulières'' are defined as specific legal procedures more or less frequently used by litigants: joint applications, fixed-date summons, request procedure, and many others.
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Ministère de la Justice. (November 7, 2024). Share of new legal cases handled by justice courts in France in 2023, by type [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved June 26, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1306638/france-new-legal-cases-by-type/
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