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Law Firms - Family Law
Yossi Hershkovitz & Co. - Law Firm
Yossi Hershkovitz & Co. Law Firm is a
boutique firm, specializing in family
and inheritance affairs, being one of the
most prominent and leading law firms in its field
in Israel.
The firm was established in 1998 and since then
has established its reputation as a quality and
leading firm for family and inheritance laws.
The firm specializes in personal, discreet and pro-
fessional service, tailored to the client’s needs on
the one hand and comprehensive handling of all
the legal issue concerning the client on the other,
keeping a personal relationship between the cli-
ents and the firm’s staff.
Yossi Hershkovitz & Co. Law Firmhandles complex
case files regarding family affairs and inheritance
laws.
The firm deals, among others, in complicated di-
vorce conflicts, family laws and personal status,
property disputes, child abduction, common law
marriage, inheritance laws, wills preparation, es-
tate administrators and inheritance disputes.
The firm operates as a boutique firm, aspiring
to grant professional, personal and efficient as-
sistance to its clientele and believing in finding
effective, just and fast solutions to conflicts, in
cooperation with the clients and according to their
needs. The firmwas involved in the establishment
of precedents such as the matter of charging in-
terest in the rabbinical tribunals, applying the
Property Relations Law at the rabbinical tribunals,
interpretation of Property Relations Law (Gamliel
Supreme Court of Justice Verdict), etc.
The firm’s founder, Adv. Yossi Hershkovitz, has vast
experience regarding appearance in court and rab-
binical tribunals and represents parties in divorce
disputes at the Supreme Court of Justice. The firm is
well known at the legal establishment and among
civil and rabbinical judges. Among others, Adv.
Hershkovitz acted as the estate administrator of
the late singer Ofra Haza and the firm administers
at present several estates, following its nomina-
tion by court.
The firm’s lawyers are qualified for mediation,
representing a worldview that includes achieving
goals at the shortest time, finding fast solutions
to sensitive conflicts and the aspiration that both
parties end the dispute at the best position.
The firm cooperates with other lawyers from vari-
ous areas as a one stop shop and in case of need
they support the client in other law fields, without
having to apply to another firm.
The firm offers personal professional representa-
tion in order to achieve an efficient and equitable
solution in all the categories of family and inheri-
tance laws. The firm aspires to grant professional,
personal and efficient support to all its clients.
Simple and complex cases are handled with the
same serious consideration.
The firm believes in finding an efficient, right
and rapid solution to conflicts and strives to help
people in distress and guide them to a new begin-
ning. The firm is convinced that divorce is in many
cases a start for a better life and is determined to
help the clients reach the best possible situation,
to their full satisfaction. The firm uses mediation
tools for the handling of the file, at the best inter-
est of the client and in order to obtain an optimal
comprehensive solution.
The firm hires lawyers from all the lines of civil law
in order to render an extensive solution for each
file, according to the client’s needs.
Areas of Expertise
The firmspecializes in familymatters, includingmi-
nor custody, child support, alimony, propertymat-
ters, common lawmarriage, financial agreements,
divorce agreements, child abduction (Hague Con-
vention), emigration, divorce at the rabbinical
court, divorce and marital reconciliation claims at
the Rabbinate, jurisdiction struggles between the
civil and the rabbinical courts, domestic violence,
representation at the Supreme Court of Justice and
guardianship.
The firm specializes in inheritance matters such
as preparation of wills. A will is one of the most
sensitive documents that a person will draw in
his lifetime. Due to the fact that oppositions are
often raised against wills after the demise of the
legator, the will shall be issued in themost profes-
sional and experiencedway, in order to prevent any
ground for future opposition to the will. The firm
has many years of experience in the writing wills,
whichwere successfully tested in court. In addition,
the firm specializes in bequeathing plans and in-
heritance disputes, being one of themost complex
and delicate areas in family laws. The firmhas vast
experience in the filing of oppositions to wills due
to various causes stipulated by law and by verdicts,
as well as submitting replies to will oppositions.
The firmcooperates with various investigative enti-
ties in order to obtain the relevant facts in themost
optimal way. The firmhandles inheritance and will
implementation orders and estate administration,
having many years of experience in the adminis-
tration of estates. Adv. Hershkovitz acted, among
others, as the administrator of the estate of the
late singer Ofra Haza as well as other significant
estates, after being appointed by court. The firm
acts as estate administrator also by appointment
of the Family Court. Estate administration requires
vast professionalismand knowledge in the various
legal fields and includes comprehensive service
fromall the lawyers in the firm to achieve themost
efficient and right administration of the estate, on
behalf of all the inheritors.
Adv. Yossi Hershkovitz
Adv. Yossi Hershkovitz was ordained as a Rabbi as
well as a mediator by the Israel Bar Association,
having rich experience in representation at vari-
ous instances, regularly appearing in all of them
and being known in every law court countrywide.
Adv. Yossi Hershkovitz is involved in the various
committees of the Israel Bar Association. He is
a member of the Rabbinical Courts Committee at
the Bar, acting to improve and develop the family
laws field in Israel.
Adv. Hershkovitz is a law lecturer at Ariel University
Center and other entities.
Adv. Hershkovitz believes in finding efficient, just
and fast solutions to end disputes and aspires to
contribute to save people in distress and guide
them to a new beginning and a better life.
Esta b l i s h e d
1998
L i n e o f B u s i n ess
Family and Inheritance laws
Yossi Hershkovitz
Adv., Founder and owner *
B.S.R. 2 Tower, 28th floor
1 David Ben Gurion St., Bnei Brak 5120149
Tel: 972-3-6163010
Fax:972-3-6163939
* See Top Executives Profiles - Page 582