Abstract
The mandate of future protection is a conventional measure that organizes in advance the protection of patrimonial interests and/ or someone’s personal interests, for the day this person won’t be able to take care about herself following an alteration of her own abilities. The latter is recorded through a movement of contractualisation of the right of people and of the family prevailing individual will. The mandate of future protection is an innovation in French law that debunks traditional ideas. Nowadays, the measure of protection can be negotiated by the parts that instaure their own law. The person is associated to her own protection. Even if it is an institution often debated from a protective point of view as well as on the technique used to make it (the contract), this very measure is in a constant evolution since it was created and the slow but progressive use of it is becoming more important through the years. Time will be a determining factor to appreciate this new tool on the legal scene.