Ayelet Ben-Gur Cohen Law Offices and Mediaton

Ayelet Ben Gur-Cohen Law Office, Mediators and Notaries is a leading boutique firm in family and inheritance laws, that was founded in 2000 by Adv. Ayelet Ben Gur-Cohen.
The office founder, Attorney Ben Gur Cohen, has a master’s degree (LL.M.) from Bar Ilan University and a master’s degree in business administration and economics (MBA), certified Mediator and Notary. She is known as a senior attorney with over 26 years of experience in family and inheritance laws, and is reputable for the professional, discrete and reliable service that she provides her clients, while providing personal guidance at all stages of the case. Over the years, Adv. Ben-Gur Cohen has accumulated extensive experience in managing the most complex cases in the field of law and has developed a unique legal strategy for managing disputes and crises. Adv. Ben-Gur Cohen began as an intern in the office of retired judge Shaul Shohat, one of Israel’s most senior judges. Admitted as a Lawyer in the May 2000 and as a certified mediator in the field of family law in 2003, and she has managed since then a variety of mediation proceedings in complex family disputes that have been very successful in resolving disputes in the best and most professional way. Adv. Ben-Gur Cohen has been a lecturer in the field of family law for many years at leading academic institutions, including the Hebrew University, the Technion and Bar Ilan University, as part of the lecturing staff studies for proficiency done by Etz Hadaat Company, and was a partner to the “Divorcing in Cooperation” group which offers a one-stop-shop of comprehensive services needed for the full divorce proceeding, including attorneys, psychologists, actuaries and accountants. Adv. Ben-Gur Cohen has extensive experience in representing before legal instances, including appeals and proceedings before higher instances including the Great Rabbinical Court, the district courts, the Supreme Court and the High Court of Justice (HCJ).

The Office and its Fields of Expertise

The source of the firm’s strength and uniqueness lies in the synergy between the high level of service awareness and in-depth professional knowledge and many years of experience in managing complex cases, including and in particular cases with financial aspects. The firm’s skilled legal team provides first-class legal services in the field of personal status family and inheritance law and in the field of mediation, while ensuring reliable, discreet and professional service that is tailored to the personal needs of the firm’s clients. The firm is meticulous in keeping up to date with the latest developments in its areas of expertise In order to continue to offer its clients the professional and innovative legal services in the field, it also offers Enduring Power of Attorney Drafting Services in which the Grantor decides while he is lucid who will take care of his affairs when he loses his clarity. The firm specializes in family law and inheritance law in all their aspects, including and in particular financial disputes between spouses and between heirs. The firm provides mediation and negotiation services for drafting prenuptial agreements, shared living agreements, shared parenthood, divorce agreements and their drafting.
The office represents before family courts, rabbinical tribunal, the inheritance registrar and also in appeal proceedings including district courts, Supreme/HCJ Court and the Great Rabbinical Court. The office offers extensive legal services, including management of divorce cases in all aspects: shared parental responsibility and visitations timeshare, child and/or spousal and/or estate support, resource balancing and property distribution between spouses, handling parental alienation, enforcing visitation arrangements, adoption and surrogacy proceedings, common-law marriage and marriage dissolution (civil marriage). immigration of children abroad and children abduction and domestic violence, including matters of protection orders and orders to prevent threatening abuse. And, on the other hand, dealing with false complaints.

The office offers

Drafting wills services, wills objections, probate orders and inheritance orders, estate management, drafting estate-related agreements and representing in estate conflicts.
In recent years, the firm’s main expertise has been in complex economic and financial disputes between spouses and between heirs.

Humanity, Reliability, Professionalism and Discretion

The firm is known for its honesty and reliability in providing personal attention to the client and in managing the crisis with meticulous, sensitivity and thoroughness, it offers professional, reliable and discreet service, full transparency with the client and taking a legal strategy that is appropriate in each case to achieve the best for its customers.

Selected Cases and Prominent Laws

Cancellation of child support due to severe incitement and disconnection between the client and his children. The Ministry has proven that there is no justice in the continuation of the payment Denial of Child Support he payment of alimony payments as long as the client was deprived of contact with his children and the court ordered the cancellation of alimony payments as a sanction against the estranged mother. On the other hand,
Dismissal of a claim for cancellation of alimony due to parental alienation
The children refused to be in contact with the father who filed a petition for the cancellation of alimony due to parental alienation. The firm proved that the parental alienation was created because of the father and not because of incitement on the part of the mother, therefore, the alimony should not be canceled. The father petitioned for fines to be imposed on the mother and for the family to be sent for additional emotional treatment, after years of treatments that failed due to the father’s behavior. His petition was rejected and he was required to take individual treatment.
Restoration of Sole Parental Responsibility Custody
The custody/sole parental responsibility for the client’s son was transferred to his father following a serious mistake due to his mother’s violence against him. At the end of a long and protracted process in which the relationship with the minor was restored, he returned to his mother’s home, the court ordered the transfer of the minor’s center of life to the mother’s place of residence. The father was rejected.
Defamation Claims
The firm’s client filed a lawsuit for defamation and was acquitted after it was proven that after the separation, the mother defamed his name. and despite the court’s tendency to rule that statements made in the framework of legal proceedings will not easily be considered defamation.
Cancellation of a Prenuptial Agreement
Cancellation of a prenuptial agreement that leaves a client who requested a divorce penniless. After lengthy proceedings, the agreement was cancelled and the client received large financial compensation according to the standard of living in which they lived.
Probate Order and Objection to a Will - Who is an “Interested Party”
The firm represented young heirs who lost their father against their uncle who petitioned for the execution of a will according to which he will be appointed to manage the estate and the estate will be distributed to them only in many years. Later, the uncle passed away and another uncle asked asked to continue the processes under him. Our office claimed that the surviving uncle had no status in the will and that the position of executor of an estate is not inherited and the court accepted our arguments and ruled that the other uncle cannot continue the proceedings in place of the deceased.
Negation of a Ketuba from a “Bad Woman”
Revoking the address of a woman who filed false complaints against her husband and defining her as a “bad woman”. In this case, the firm represented the husband who, on the one hand, was removed from the parties’ home by means of false complaints, and on the other hand, was sued by the woman for payment of her ketuba. The rabbinical court accepted the husband’s arguments and ruled that a woman who files false complaints against her husband is a “bad woman” and therefore is not entitled to her ketuba.