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Law Firms - Private Clients, Trusteeship & Family Wealth Management
Shiri Malca Law Office
The firm acts in all courts and provides
extensive consultancy and support in all
aspects regarding family disputes among
couples, divorce proceedings, among parents and
children- custodianship for elderly parents pro-
ceedings, among siblings- inheritance disputes etc.
The firmhas a department, which provides specific
legal services regarding company law related to
family businesses, while combining family law and
company law. The firmmanages precise strategies
and effectively builds family units, family wealth
and company management to prevent disputes.
The firm successfully promotes proper relations
between business partners especially when they
are relatives including passing between genera-
tions, integrating second and third generations,
wills and agreements between partners.
Practice Areas
First Department – Preventing Family Disputes:
Between couples-agreements: prenuptial, joint
living, separation, common law spouses, domes-
tic harmony. The firm believes in preventing fam-
ily disputes and managing family unit strategies.
Prenuptial agreements are an effective instrument
to create certainty and prevent struggles while pro-
tecting the extended family’s property. Relevant
prenuptial agreements can combat common law
as part of a first relationship and mainly second
and third relationships.
Between Parents – Parental Agreements – The firm
has a department for parental agreements in the
common law and same sex sectors.
Between Siblings – Agreements Between Heirs –
Before or after the death of parents, and drawing
up family covenants.
BetweenSiblings – Custodianship for Elderly Par-
ents – Conducts custodianship cases requests to
pronounce a person under protection, protection
of property of elderly parents andmanaging trusts
on their behalf.
Managing Family Disputes: Between Couples:
Managing Legal Proceedings – The litigation
department acts in divorce proceedings in fam-
ily and district courts, and rabbinical district and
high courts, the High Court of Justice andSupreme
Court.
Family Court Suits – Common Law handles in
complex proceedings in common law, proving or
contesting relationships including suits in the labor
court regarding a spouse or common law spouse’s
rights.
Property – The property and real estate department
deals in all legal challenges regarding division of
property between couples, balancing resources,
liquidating partnerships in real estate, compa-
nies, receiverships, sale agreements, and work
with trustees.
WifeSupport/Common Law– Handles in wife sup-
port or common law or support from wills.
Between Parents: Custody – Conducting the most
complex custody proceedings including examining
and contesting custody of preschoolers, cutting
off parents, and refusing a connection, handling
the single-sex sector and promoting joint custody
arrangements.
Education – Involved in suits regarding childrens’
education streams and schools.
Immigration and Child Abduction – Conducts im-
migration and child abduction according to the
Hague Convention including relocation and im-
migration challenges.
Legal Custodianship for Minors – Manages the
most complex custodianship and appointed by
courts as legal custodian for minors in difficult
disputes conducted by parents.
Childmaintenance –Suits close to separation and
after divorce in cases where there is a significant
change of circumstances and support level must
be changed.
BetweenSiblings: Inheritance Cases – Contesting
– Proceedings for wills/inheritances cases com-
bining property, companies, assets and money in
Israel and abroad.
Support Claims from Estates – Legal proceedings
dealing with support fromestates including uncov-
ering and revealing support required and sources
of collecting income by the plaintiff.
Probate and/or Legal Inheritance – Obtaining
requests for probate and/or legal inheritance, ap-
pointing permanent or temporary estatemanagers.
Managing Estates – The firm is appointed to man-
age estate cases.
Solving Family Disputes: Talks or Mediation – Be-
lievingmost family disputes can be ended through
talks and mediation,the department mediates ,
supports clients in this process behind the scenes
or through direct representation.
Second Department – FamilyWealthManagement:
Wills – Draws up smart, personally tailored, family,
business and financial wills while creating private
trusts and endowments.
Transferring Between Generations and Gifts –
Meets the challenge of planning inter-generational
transfers: protecting the parents generation and
preventing exploitation by others. Education and
training offspring/children to integrate into busi-
nesses –drawing up agreements, family covenants,
agreements between heirs, gift agreements etc.
Private Companies and Family Partnerships: Pri-
vate Companies–Supports and advises companies
and businesses in regulations aiming to prevent
the company’s exposure to disputes in families
of partners, and the correct arrangements in the
business for passing between generations.
Family Companies – Support and advise family
companies by finding solutions to ensure exis-
tence of the family company even after the lives
of founding partners by integrating second and
third generations into businesses.
Overseas Activities – Represents clients overseas
in all activities and in immigration and Hague Con-
vention matters.
Pro Bono – Acts in principle and unique pro bono
cases and for a decade has worked with Bar Ilan
University’s Rackman Center for the Advancement
of women’s status.
Esta b l i s h e d
2005
L i n e o f b u s i n ess
Shiri Malca Law Office is a law firm operating for more
than 10 years and comprising two departments:
The first handles all challenges regarding preventing,
managing and settling family disputes (between couples
– divorce, between siblings – inheritance and estates,
between parents and children – custody of children,
custodianship by adults)
The second handles legal issues concerning family risk
management- individual, family, business including
companies of a family nature, family businesses,
building sensible standards, allocating management
and control shares, integrating children into family
businesses, managing personal and family wealth, and
transferring it from generation to generation
Shiri Malca
Owner of the Firm *
9 Masada St., 3 B.S.R. Building,
Bnei Brak 5120109
Tel: 972-3-6477383
Fax: 972-3-6476334
* See Top Executives Profiles - Page 582