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Law Firms - Family Law
Uri Zfat Law Office
U ri Zfat Law Office is Israel’s preeminent
expert on family law and all inheri-
tance matters, divorce, custodian-
ship and more. With expertise in negotiation
and mediation, he graduated courses at Harvard
Law School. During his 38 years as a lawyer,
Uri Zfat has handled the most complex divorce
cases and wills through a unique combination
of legal understanding and know-how, major
experience and legal tactics. He also offers
extensive expertise in contesting wills and all
aspects of inheritance matters, managing and
dividing estates.
Shaping Israeli Family Law
Uri Zfat has a great knowledge of family law and
inheritance law and is helping to shape a new
legislation. He serves as the Co-Chairman of the
Israel Bar Association Inheritance Committee and
Co-Chairman of the National Rabbinical Courts
Committee, and he is a former Chairman of the Tel
Aviv District Family Law Committee and Chairman
of the Rabbinical Courts Committee. He is the
official representative of the Israel Bar Associa-
tion on matters of Family Law, for the Knesset
Constitutional, Law and Legal Committee, , and
attends debates on proposed new legislation
and amendments. In this manner, he is able to
personally contribute to the legislative and demo-
cratic process and the overall texture of Israeli
family law. Among the topics to which he was
a party in legislation in the Knesset committee
are the important amendment (number 4) to the
Relation of Assets Law for couples, mutual wills,
the authority of rabbinical courts, various pro-
tocols and more. Israel’s newspaper and radio
editors and Internet sites frequently ask Uri Zfat
to contribute responses and op-ed articles on
new or fundamental legal matters from a legal
perspective. He wrote and edited the Israel Bar
Association’smonthly newsletter on family law –
Et VeMishpacha. He is a lecturer in legal practice
in estates at ShaaryMishpat College and Bar Ilan
University Academic Center. Uri Zfat participated
in the “professional know-how enrichment proj-
ect,” in which leading lawyers in the sector met
with young lawyers to advise and instruct them
and consider topics together thus contributing
to the community.
After graduating from the Nahalim Orthodox
Yeshiva high school and serving in the army as
a professional soldier and in the reserves as a
criminal investigator, Uri Zfat received an LL.B.
from Bar-Ilan University’s Faculty of Law and
has been a member of the Israel Bar Associa-
tion since 1977, when he opened his own law
firm. He has graduated from special courses at
Harvard LawSchool for managing negotiators and
for mediation. Uri Zfat is an authorized mediator
in family law.
Over the years, Uri Zfat lectured and taught Family
and Inheritance Law in institutions such as the
School for Welfare Officials, Rabbinical Claims
Institute, universities and colleges. He conducts
certificatory training at the Israeli Bar, directs
judicial conventions and promotes family law
studies among college students. He lectures at
training courses, seminars, conferences and in
the college of the Israel Bar, and on the same
subject, examines interns for the Bar and serves
as a Judge in its Disciplinary Court. He is the ac-
ademic coordinator for seminars in family law
and inher-itance law at Bar Ilan University and
lectured in the past on inheritance law at Shaary
Mishpat College.
Following the murder of 11 members of Israel’s
Olympic squad by PLO terrorists in Munich in
1972, Uri Zfat was called upon as an expert wit-
ness in the German courts in a claim for child
support by the orphans of the slain athletes. He
has also given professional opinions to the courts
on professional negligence in agreements drawn
up by lawyers on family matters and wills.
Legal Precedents
Uri Zfat acts on the cutting edge of family law
and has been involved in winning numerous
legal-precedent decisions for his clients. These
fundamental verdicts encompass many topics
such as partnership practice between couples,
child support, dividing property, wills and
trusts, Supreme Court petitions and more. He
is involved in appeals to the Supreme Court and
High Rabbinical Court, in which he has been
involved inmany important halachic rulings, and
many of the landmark rulings that he has won
are now taught as text-book cases to students in
the country’s universities and colleges.
Areas of Expertise
Uri Zfat’s extensive experience and expertise
encompass all areas of family law. He regularly
appears before all the country’s courts includ-
ing the Supreme Court as well as the Rabbinical
Supreme Court and the rabbinical courts. He has
a profound understanding of Jewish law and hala-
cha as well as Israeli civil law.
Divorce and Inheritance Disputes: In addition
to litigation, he successfully negotiates and
mediates in divorce, inheritance, property, ad-
ministration of estates, assets and jointly held
businesses; asset agreements; prenuptial and
cohabitation agreements; property and heirs
division agreements.
Wills& Estates: Drawing up wills, executing wills,
legal managing of contesting wills, investigating
medical specialists, handling bequests, distribu-
tion, appealing over inheritance etc.
Mediation, Arbitration and Negotiation: Uri Zfat
has successfully managed many mediations, ar-
bitration and negotiations using his know-how
and experience in the sector.
Amongst Uri Zfat’s clients are included many
other lawyers, doctors, journalists, high-tech
professionals, politicians and public figures,
professors and academics, businesspeople and
celebrities. He provides legal opinions to courts,
and advises other lawyers on family lawmatters.
Uri Zfat’s wealth of knowledge and experience
enables him to anticipate future scenarios and
advise clients accordingly. He is able to foresee
developing situations and stumbling blocks and
counsel his clients not only on what to do but of-
tenmore significantly what not to do – important
advice in the legal process.
Esta b l i s h e d
1977
L i n e o f b u s i n ess
Law Firm Specializing in Family
Disputes, Inheritance and Wills, Divorce,
Negotiations and Mediation
Uri Zfat
Law Office
29 Namir Rd., Tel Aviv 6492006
Tel: 972-3-6918356
Fax:972-3-6950741
Uri Zfat
Owner & Manager *
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