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Business Services
Law Firms - Family Law
Sidi Law Firm
Sidi Law Firm is one of Israel’s top ten fam-
ily and inheritance lawfirms. The firmwas
founded by Adv. Jacob Sidi in 1975 and
has managed thousands of complex cases over
the years, in all areas of family and inheritance
law: divorce, property division, custody, financing
agreements, custodianship, andmore as well as
inheritance law–wills and estates. In 1997, Adv.
RoySidi joined the firmbringing about continued
growth. Among others, the firmacts in cases with
complex international aspects through coopera-
tion with law firms in Israel and abroad engaged
in commercial and corporate law, and family law.
The firm also handles the planning of economic
matters for the client through the extensive ex-
perience it has acquired. Over the years, the firm
has won a number of major legal precedents and
gained a reputation for conducting complex di-
vorce cases involving money and property.
Service Approach
The guidelines in which the firm operates is sup-
porting its clientswith great sensitivity. Clients are
in the throes of a complex period full of tensions
and concerns, and needing a major anchor to
protect their interests. Deep knowledge of finan-
cial matters, the capital market, economics and
businessmanagement allows the firm to conduct
cases for upper class clients.
Practice Areas
Litigation - TThe firm’s staff, headed by Adv. Roy
Sidi, represents clients in all instances includ-
ing the Magistrate’s Courts, the District Courts,
the Labor Courts, the Supreme Court, Family
Affairs Court and the Rabbinical Court. Adv. Ja-
cob Sidi has appeared in court for over 42 years
and Adv. Roy Sidi for over 17 years, represent-
ing their clients in a clear and considered way,
paying attention to details and being assisted by
professionals – expert consultants in the fields
of economics, finance, the capital market, real
estate and more.
Family Law - The firm’s practice in family law
touches all legal aspects: spouse and child sup-
port, custody, prenuptial agreements, divorce
and family reconciliation suits, power struggles
between the rabbinical and family affairs courts,
common law spouses, etc. The firm handles
divorce cases guided by the attempt to reach an
agreement and save unnecessary struggles. How-
ever, in the absence of any agreement from the
opposing party, the firm undertakes an aggres-
sive approach in the various courts to maximize
the client’s rights. The firm’s clients are typically
involved in complex disputes stemming from the
division of property belonging to companies,
shareholders, company valuations, asset and
real estate ownership and more. In addition, the
firm is permanently at the forefront of the legal
innovations, maximizing the results for the cus-
tomer, also vis a vis the new court rulings.
Inheritance Law - The firm is engaged in draw-
ing up wills, filing contesting of wills, inheritance
disputes, andmanaging estates. The firmspecial-
izes in, filing requests to fulfill wills and/or grant
an inheritance order by law and well as filing will
contests. The leading guideline in inheritance law
is realizing the possible procedures to maximize
the financial rights of the firm’s clients, some-
times in protracted legal proceedings, with the
full knowledge that such a process results in
many cases in a compromise.
Child Immigration and Abduction - The firmhan-
dles the sensitive area of child immigration and
abduction. The firm renders legal consultancy to
avoid child immigration and abduction, consul-
tancy and modes of operation in case of actual
immigration and abduction and legal handling on
issues related to the Hague Convention, dealing
in the civil aspects of international abduction of
children and habeas corpus orders in caseswhere
the convention does not apply.
Activities for the Community
The firm takes on pro bono cases for those that
cannot afford to pay and needing assistance due
to financial distress.
The Firm’s Outstanding Precedents and
Achievements
1. Family Court Appeal 1279/07 Party A v Party
B – Regarding an unequal division according to
clause 8 of the Law for Property Relations Be-
tween Couples. A precedent for Sidi for the ben-
efit of the weaker economic party regarding an
unequal division of property accumulated during
the marriage.
2. Supreme Court File 2123/08 – A precedent
for Sidi; a Jewish man and foreign resident was
detained in Israel until he finally agreed to grant
his wife a divorce, which he had initially made
dependent on division of their joint property.
3. Family file 030541/04 – A case ruled in fa-
vor of Adv. Sidi and precedent ruling which has
since guided the ruling of courts on when the
judge will grant joint custody to the mother and
the father.
4. Family file 60266-01-13 – A case in which a
trustee was appointed, at the request of Adv. Sidi,
before the balance of resources, fearing evasion.
The court ordered the husband to transfer prop-
erty registered under his name, which was not
ruled yet as joint property, to the trustee. Later on,
the spouses’ shares and real estate asset, that
were purchased after the dispute, were expro-
priated from the couple to the trustee, once the
concern for a smuggle of assets by the husband
was established.
5. Family file 2304-02-15 – A case in which an ur-
gent habeas corpus request regarding a 16 years
old minor that returned to Israel was cancelled,
despite a verdict of the District Court determin-
ing that he should immigrate together with his
mother, until an expert’s examination, and the
minor was even referred to educational institu-
tions in Israel. At the end of the day, the family
Court in fact ruled that the custody of the minor
should be granted to his father..
6. Family File 6574-02-16 – The Rabbinical
Court’s decision that it in fact has the authority
to discuss minor’s child support, and the court’s
ruling respecting this decision.
7. Family File 18278-12-15 – The verdict for tem-
porary child support, determining that a reduction
of the amount is in order for theminor, since there
is a secondminor residing with him, even though
they are not from the same father, the accused.
Esta b l i s h e d
1975
L i n e o f B u s i n ess
Law Firm
116 Namir Rd., Tel Aviv
Tel: 972-4-6048121
Fax: 972-3-5466898
Roy Sidi
Senior Partner *
Jacob Sidi
Founder and Senior
Partner
* See Top Executives Profiles - Page 582