Adv. Kopelman Pardo Talia, Retired Judge

Kopelman Pardo Law Firm is a boutique Law Firm 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 team, 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 firm 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 Tel Aviv. 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 services 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, Divorce Settlement 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 high-profile Clientele Benefits from the variety of fields in which the firm’s team specializes in.

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 which became legal cornerstones in Israeli Family Law, are attributed to Adv. Talia Kopelman Pardo. 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 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.

The Firm also made precedents in the field of Family Law, including in matters discussed in accordance with the Hague Convention Law (Return of Abducted Children) Law, 5751 - 1991 and in all matters related to minors.

Lately, a further substantial precedent has been made by the Firm at the Israeli Supreme Court, (Family Appeal Request Files 5620/24 & 17735-09-24), given by a panel of three Supreme Court Judges on June 30th, 2025, regarding the specific partnership properties which are normally excluded by the Property Relations Between Spouses Law, 1973. The precedent established new rulings regarding the specific partnership properties, and the scope of its application with reference to the Property Relations Between Spouses Law, 1973. In this case, the wife appealed on the rulings given by the Family Court and the District Court, according to which the husband received the right to half of the apartments built in a combination transaction on land received by the wife from her father as a gift. Her appeals were rejected by the Supreme Court’s Verdict. The husband’s opposing appeal, for his additional rights in the land itself (and not only for rights in the apartments built on the land), was accepted in the third round at the Supreme Court after being rejected by the Family Court and the District Court. Adv. Kopelman Pardo and Adv. Kibrik firm’s team represented the husband in all three instances

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.