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Law Firms - Family Law
Ze’ev Welner, Advocates
Ze’ev Welner Advocates is a leading bou-
tique law firm, specializing in family and
inheritance law. The firm is one of themost
experienced law firms in Israel, and has received
top-tier rankings for consecutive years in its field.
The firm is renowned for its expertise in family and
inheritance law, thanks to the substantial prec-
edents that it achieved and the knowledge and
reputation gained by Adv. Welner as an authority in
over 40 years of experience. Adv. Welner is one of
the few lawyers in Israel whomaremembers of the
exclusive association - International Academy of
Matrimonial Lawyers (IAML), which has only 1,000
members, all leadingmatrimonial lawyers, dealing
with disputes involving international aspects.
Over 40 years of Diligence and Success
Ze’ev Welner Advocates was founded in the mid-
70s. The firm initially handled a wide range of legal
sectors, mainly commercial and criminal. Once the
firm had obtained experience in the commercial
field, won many cases and created precedents at
the Supreme Court, Adv. Welner began special-
izing in family and inheritance law while using his
vast commercial experience. Adv welner has been
working in this sector with dedication, diligence
and great success ever since.
Adv. Welner has an LL.B. from the Tel Aviv Branch of
the Law Faculty at the Hebrew University of Jerusa-
lem. His vast expertise in complex cases, including
many commercial and property elements is widely
recognized by the legal community.
Adv. Welner represents Israel’s wealthiest people
as well as clients in distress having no financial
resources. Hemanages with wisdomand creativity
sensitive cases in the children’s area, including
child support, custody, visitation, child abduction
and immigration. Adv. Welner is often invited to
participate and lecture in professional panels at
various conferences, including the conference of
the Israeli Bar Association. .Adv. Welner has re-
cently moderated panels dealing with family law
conflicting with bankruptcy law, protection orders
and restraining orders to prevent harassment, and
participated in panels regarding genetic informa-
tion and parenting testing, and child support. Adv.
Welner lectures at Kiryat Onu College on current af-
fairs related to family and inheritance law. Over the
years Adv. Welner has published dozens of articles.
He wrote for Globes newspaper, and regularly pub-
lishes articles in the legal website “PsakDin” such
as: “End of the Jurisdiction Race Era”, “Marriage is
also a Business”, “Before you Abduct your Child,
Please Read this Article”, “Sex Tapes in Marital
Trials”, “Alimony: The Difference between Sacred
and Secular”, “Inheritance between members of
the family inMoshavim”, “Custody – ToWhomBe-
longs the Fetus?”, “Socialism in Social Benefits”,
“Violent Husband – What should be done?”, “To
Whom Do you Belong, Child?” etc.
Practice Areas
Contracts - Prenuptials, nuptials and cohabitation
contracts, inheritance distribution contracts and
family assets contracts.
Litigation - Appearance and representation at vari-
ous tribunals in the family and inheritance areas,
including at family courts, civil courts, rabbinical
courts, district courts and the Supreme Court (both
appeals and petitions to the High Court of Justice),
arbitrators, mediators, etc.
Property Law - Court cases involving different dis-
ciplines in family law, contract law, corporate law
and bankruptcy law, etc.
Children - Custody, visitation, abduction, immigra-
tion, parenting claims, child support, etc.
Spouse’s Rights andObligations - preserving the
parties rights, alimony trials, etc.
DomesticViolence - Protection orders, injunctions,
restraining orders, etc.
Inheritance - preparing wills, preparing mutual
wills, filling for probate, filing objections to pro-
bate, claims on estates etc.
Commercial Law - Family commercial disputes.
International Cases - Counselling in family affairs
including a private international aspect and sup-
port of clientele cases abroad – the firm counsels
in the international fields of family and inheritance
law. Adv. Welner has personal relationships with
the best family lawyers in various countries and
he organizes teams of lawyers in complex family
cases abroad. The verdicts that he obtained in fam-
ily law inMonaco and Germany showhis beneficial
involvement there.
Leading and guidingmediation proceedings un-
der the law of mediation in family disputes.
Legal Precedents
Adv. Welner has initiated petitions to the High Court
of Justice and created major precedents in family
and constitutional law in Israel, including: High
Court of Justice appeal 1000/92 Bavli V. the Rab-
binical Court, which transformed Matrimonial Law
and granted equal rights for women at the rabbini-
cal tribunals. High Court of Justice appeal 5466/94.
Ze’ev Welner V. the Israeli Labor Party, opposing
to the change of liberal rules regarding family and
inheritance matters and forbidding the signing
of coalition agreements designed to bypass the
High Court of Justice by negative legislation. Adv.
Welner is responsible for additional precedents
including a precedent on paternity tests, which
reversed the longstanding practices implemented
until then, tissue classification testing technique,
the first precedent regarding child abduction byThe
Hague Convention, implemented in Israel at that
time. Adv. Welner has further initiated innovative
rulings regarding contract and civil laws.
Legal Website “Psak Din”
In 2000 Adv. Welner founded the Israeli legal
website “Psak Din”, which is one of the promi-
nent Israeli law websites. Hundreds of thousands
of browsers visit the websitemonthly and it deals in
all the legal fields. All activemembers of the Israeli
Bar Association are subscribed, as well as tens of
thousands of professionals, organizations, com-
panies and businessmen. When establishing the
website, Adv. Welner focused on rendering justice
for all, making the legal information accessible to
everyone. “PsakDin” is unique in its approach pro-
viding legal information, considered a legal guide
and is nowadays being globally expanded.
Planning & Separation of Private & Business
Property during Family or Marital Crises
The firmhas a “one stop shop” for themost impor-
tant legal-economic advice to clients undergoing
a family or marital crisis. Counselling is rendered
also in the economic area by tax experts, banking
experts and senior economists.
Esta b l is h ed
1974
L i n e o f B u s i n ess
Family and Inheritance Law
7 Menachem Begin Rd., Beit Gibor Sport
Tower Ramat Gan 5268102
Tel: 972-3-5755334, 972-54-4333783
Fax: 972-3-5755338
Ze’ev Welner
Adv., Founding Partner *
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