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Law Firms - Family Law
Dafna Ziss - Law Offices
Dafna Ziss - Law Offices is a unique firm
specializing in family law and inheri-
tance law in both Israel and the USA,
offering clients a range of legal services in di-
vorce, dividing property, support, custody, fam-
ily wealth management, relocation and child
abduction, mediation, inheritance, wills and
estates.
The firm has rich experience and impressive
capabilities in representing clients in all civil
courts (including rabbinical courts) in Israel and
the USA, and New York State in particular.
The firm’s clients include senior capital man-
agement, international businesspeople that re-
quire expertise in the intricacies of international
family law and USA matrimonial law. Of utmost
importance to all matters is the maintenance of
absolute discretion.
The firm also specializes in drafting prenuptial
agreements and other financial agreements
that are legally binding in the USA and in Israel
which relate to assets, rights and property in
both countries; in handling sensitive Interna-
tional paternity suits; in proceedings to balance
resources and divide property in proportion to
the property, rights, options, real estate and
businesses in Israel and the USA; in couples
mediation conducted in English applicable
to both USA and Israel law, in relocation pro-
ceedings or child abduction proceedings; and
providing expert professional opinion to Israeli
courts on matrimonial and inheritance laws in
the USA. The firm also has unique expertise
in family wealth management and transferring
assets between generations including family
businesses and handling foreign and domestic
estates.
Unique Specialization in International Law
Dafna Ziss has a particular specialization in
international law in the field of family law. She
is a leading authority in Israel on International
matrimonial and inheritance law and on the
internal matrimonial and inheritance laws in
the fifty states of the USA.
This acquaintance with international law in
general and the laws of individual USA states
assists Dafna Ziss in providing her clients with
a wide range of professional, sophisticated and
creative solutions. Dafna Ziss serves as an ex-
ternal counselor to other Israeli matrimonial
law firms in complex cases linked to the USA,
and is known in the legal community as a USA
law expert in MATRIMONIAL law, family law and
inheritance LAW.
Service Values Focused on Clients
Dafna Ziss provides clients with a safety net dur-
ing sensitive periods offering close and caring
support, and personal and courteous attention.
Dafna Ziss strives to reach amicable agree-
ments in family disputes by conducting creative
negotiations and finding unique mechanisms
for effective solutions to family disputes even in
especially complex and intricate cases.
However, when it is not possible to solve the
family dispute by consent, the firm works deter-
minedly and resolutely with the aimof delivering
the best legal results for its clients by forming
appropriate strategies, planning the required
steps, and representing the client in court with
the firm’s highly impressive legal skills.
Cooperation
Dafna Ziss has connections with leading USA
law firms specializing in family law and inher-
itance law and works in close cooperation with
them. She serves as an off-counsel to the law
firm of Anthony A. Capetola, one of the lead-
ing matrimonial firms in New York, which has
earned major recognition by organizations and
agencies in New York and was awarded with
the coveted title for the past three consecutive
years of best divorce law firm in New York.
Due to the complexity of the cases that Dafna
Ziss handles, some of which have major eco-
nomic, commercial and tax (international and
domestic) characteristics and implications, the
firm also cooperates with leading firms in Israel
in commercial, economic and tax law.
Adv. Dafna Ziss
LL.B., Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A mem-
ber of the Israeli Bar association since 1990 and
a member of the New York State Bar Association
since 2001, until today. She worked in the law
offices of Amnon Zichroni and was a Founding
Partner of Ziss & Assan Law offices, where she
specialized in constitutional law, High Court
petitions and matrimonial and inheritance laws.
Adv. Ziss lived in New YorkState for 12 years and
was accepted to the New York State Bar in 2001.
She established her own firm specializing in
family law and inheritance law. At her New York
firm she gained significant practical experience
in conducting complex divorce cases including
divorce cases of marriages between Israeli and
USA nationals, the division of property includ-
ing business property, assessing companies
values and career assets, which are linked to
the USA and Israel, child abduction, support,
custody disputes and visitation.
She also specializes in conducting mediation
procedures between couples, drafting divorce
agreements, financial agreements including
prenuptial agreements, and SPECELIZED IN
common law spouse relations and joint parent-
ing. Since her return to Israel in 2009, Adv. Ziss
serves in Israel as an expert to the USA laws and
has authored hundreds of professional LEGAL
OPINIONS on foreign law (USA) on matrimonial,
family and inheritance laws, wills and estates,
and in connection with the recognition and en-
forcement of foreign judgments.
Esta b l i s h e d
2009
L i n e o f B u s in ess
Legal services in the field of family law
and inheritance
Beit Immanuel, 31 Habarzel St.,
Ramat Hahayal, Tel Aviv
Tel: 972-3-7366769 ���
Fax: 972-3-6495040
Adv. Dafna Ziss
The Firm’s Owner *
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