Adv. Kopelman Pardo Talia, Retired Judge

Kopelman Pardo Law Firm is a boutique Law Office specializing in inheritance and Family laws. The Firm is headed by Retired Judge Adv. Talia Kopelman Pardo, and is renowned for its combination of professional excellence, vast knowledge, and expertise of both the Retired Judge and the Firm’s staff, thus benefiting the Firm’s Clientele.

Adv. Talia Kopelman Pardo acts as a lawyer since 1985. Throughout the years 1986-2000, Adv. Kopelman Pardo owned a private law office which specialized in the field of Inheritance and Family laws. In 2000 Adv. Kopelman Pardo was appointed as a Judge at the Family Court of Ramat Gan. She judged at the Family Court until the end of 2012, the year she retired and established her present Law Firm.

Adv. Kopelman Pardo handles high profile cases in Family and Inheritance laws, alongside complex arbitrations, and mediations, while rendering legal opinions. The Firm grants first-rate legal service pertaining to intergenerational transfers in families, from the parents’ generation to their children, including intergenerational planning. The Law Firm specializes in preparing Last Wills, Prenuptial Agreements, Cohabitation Agreements, and Separation Agreements between spouses. The Law Firm also practices litigation of complex Divorce and Inheritance cases being heard in Family Courts, District Courts, the Supreme Court, and Rabbinical Courts and has special expertise in handling complex Divorce or Inheritance disputes involving the distribution of family assets, such as corporations, real estate, etc. Among the Firm’s Clientele are members of the top echelon of the Israeli society.

The Law Firm collaborates with experts and professionals in relevant practice fields.

Adv. Talia Kopelman Pardo’s experience and extensive knowledge, accumulated over 40 years of her legal activity, are reflected in the many precedents achieved by the Firm and the significant judgments she made as a Family Court Judge.

Many prominent precedents are attributed to Adv. Talia Kopelman Pardo that made legal cornerstones in Israeli Family Law. Among other legal achievements of Adv. Kopelman Pardo, she has set a precedent in the Hearing of Victoria Nafisi v. Siman-Tov Nafisi (Further Hearing File 1558/94), in an Appeal on the Israeli Supreme Court’s Verdict, in a panel of nine Supreme Court Judges. Nafisi’s Ruling refers to the law applicable to couples who got married outside of Israel and have immigrated to Israel, the application of the Property Relations Between Spouses Law, 1973, property distribution ruling, contract laws and the principles of private international law.

Further substantial precedents made by the Retired Judge Kopelman Pardo, are her own Verdicts regarding the right for alimony in Civil Marriages and regarding changes in the burden of proof and the provision of evidence in disputes involving property distribution between spouses in a second marriage. Moreover, the Verdict given by the Retired Judge in respect of the Literary Estate of Max Brod and Franz Kafka, was unanimously approved lately by a panel of three Supreme Court Judges at the first round in the Supreme Court of Israel, and at the second round in a Petition for a Further Hearing at the Supreme Court of Israel, as well.

Kopelman Pardo Law Firm also filled Notice of Appeal in which a precedential ruling was issued in File 56634-06-20. the District Court accepted the Firm’s argument that the rationale in Section 8 (2) of the Property Relations Between Spouses Law, 1973, can also be applied to Domestic Partners, to which the law does not apply.

Adv. Kopelman Pardo lectures at the Israel Bar Association’s Advanced Study Institutes, at the Israeli Courts’ Management Unit, and in conferences regarding Inheritance laws and Family laws.