Aviv Harel, Law Office

Aviv Harel, Law Office is a leading inheritance and family law firm. The firm was founded by Adv. Aviv Harel, who has been specializing in this area for almost three decades. The firm also has a branch in New York. 

Adv. Harel provides personal and devoted assistance and comprehensive support to his clients, with full availability, and is renowned as a determined fighter who works efficiently and transparently throughout all of the case’s stages. The firm clients are full partners across the journey, and they benefit from the firm’s founder deep legal knowledge, uncompromising professionalism and personal assistance, with attention to their complete satisfaction at all times. 

Professionalism, Creativity and a Winning Strategy

Aviv Harel provides his clients with an umbrella of professional, comprehensive and thorough services through each and every step of the way, with dedicated and personal assistance, in order to guarantee the best protection of rights and optimal results. The firm prioritizes its clients at all times, and is attentive to their needs, with a deep understanding of both the legal and the personal situation. The firm is completely transparent with its clients and tailors a strategy that is customized to all of their needs.

The firm’s team (and external experts as required) review every case individually and formulate a plan which is personally tailored to the client, in order to achieve optimal results for the clients. 

The Firm’s Area of Practice

The firm provides first-class legal services in courts of all levels, family courts and rabbinical courts, in the field of divorces, including dispute resolution proceedings, opening a divorce case, expedited divorce proceedings, divorce (“Gett”) refusal, common law marriages, complex cases of custody and visiting arrangements, balancing of resources, including external properties that were accumulated before the wedding, dissolution of real estate co-ownership in all of the properties including the residential apartment, child support and alimony, reducing child support, marital agreements and cancelations thereof, and more. In addition, the firm has vast experience in handling complex and difficult inheritance disputes, management of estate proceedings, scope of estate claims, and opposition to the execution of a will. The firm also practices intergenerational transfers to complete its comprehensive estate and inheritance practice.

The firm has a particular expertise in cases where one of the spouses is part of the “shadow economy” and makes a living off “unreported cash”, which makes exposing their assets difficult, and this is first and foremost an evidence problem. Unlike money held in bank accounts, pension funds, provident funds or real estate, for which records are available, shadow economy activities are manage, by their very nature, off the records, whether if the spouse knows about them or not, or lacks the knowledge about the full scope of the funds, assets or location thereof, which may be in a safe, Israeli or foreign bank accounts and properties that may registered under a third party name in order to hide the true ownership for various reasons. In addition, the firm has extensive experience in managing and accompanying divorce proceedings where one of the spouses has properties abroad, from the aspects of both preventing the “disappearance” of the properties and liquidating such properties. 

The firm has a particular expertise in all aspects of the balancing of resources between divorcees. This may include cases where one of the spouses didn’t work while the other’s career thrived, where the career assets must be valued to balance the resources and dividing the assets equally between the parties. The firm has extensive in representing in such cases also before the rabbinical courts. 

Adv. Aviv Harel – Founder and Owner

Adv. Aviv Harel graduated from the Faculty of Law of Tel Aviv University in 1995, and was admitted into the Israel Bar Association in 1996. He is a certified notary, certified to prepare continuous Power of Attorney qualification, and a member of the New York Bar Association. 

Adv. Harel has vast experience which was accumulated through the management of hundreds of cases and thousands of complex proceedings, in courts of all levels, in the fields of divorce, family law, inheritance and estates. The firm also has deep knowledge and extensive experience in managing disputes pertaining to custody, visitation arrangements, alimony and child support disputes and all aspects of parental alienation. 

Adv. Aviv Harel remains constantly abreast of the latest legislation amendments and rulings, and for this purpose he meticulously maintains a comprehensive professional reference archive that includes, inter alia, legal literature and access to professional legal databases. He also devotes considerable efforts and resources to deepening his legal knowledge and regularly participates in trainings and seminars in his practice areas.

Adv. Harel serves in public offices, including as a member of the Inheritance Committee and the Rabbinical Courts Committee of the Tel Aviv District of the Israel Bar Association.