Bar-Mocha Law Office

The firm’s founder, Adv. Meir Bar-Mocha is one of Israel’s most prominent, experienced and well-known lawyers. His specialty is managing complex and challenging cases in family and estate law. Adv. Bar-Mocha specializes in the fields of family and divorce law, wills, inheritance, trusts, estate law, dissolving partnerships and dividing property, receiverships, real estate, alimony, child custody, appeals and representation in family law courts and in rabbinical courts. He founded the firm in 1987 and since then has become a well-known legal figure with an excellent reputation, known for his fairness as well as for his significant professional accomplishments. Adv. Bar-Mocha received an LL.B. degree from Tel Aviv University. Meir is a certified arbitrator and mediator; he was certified by Tel Aviv University to serve as a director of public companies; he served as the chairman of a public company and is a member of the Israel Bar Association. Over the years, he has managed and counseled some of the most prominent divorce cases involving top business executives, public figures, celebrities, artists and opinion leaders.
In these cases, he proved his abilities as a determined and sharp litigator who works relentlessly to achieve the best possible outcomes for his clients. After decades of extensive litigation experience and almost daily appearances in family courts and rabbinical courts, in recent years he developed of the field of learning the art of litigation and appearance in court and creates time to teach and lecture in various forums and seminars for young lawyers, as well as at the Israeli Bar Association’s academy. Adv. Bar-Mocha was chosen, time and again, to lecture regarding the basis of litigation and the art of appearance in family courts and rabbinical courts.

Bar-Mocha Law Firm: Integrity and Fairness through Client-Oriented Service

As a boutique firm, Adv. Bar-Mocha selects the cases that he personally handles, and he gives these clients his complete attention, energy, and talent in a personal, sensitive and considerate manner.
He provides a stable and supportive environment that his clients can rely on during their difficult ordeals. Given the highly sensitive nature of complex divorce proceedings that involve children, Adv. Bar-Mocha uses his extensive experience to soften the situation by mediating and trying to reach compromises between spouses and thus ensure the optimal legal outcomes for the clients and their children.

Knowledge of Legal Proceedings and the Structure of Rabbinical Courts

Adv. Bar-Mocha has valuable, in-depth knowledge of Jewish religious laws on the subject of divorce. This is an important advantage when representing clients in rabbinical courts, making it unnecessary to enlist the services of rabbinical leaders.
As an experienced litigator, Adv. Bar-Mocha is adept at maneuvering between civil and religious laws related to divorce proceedings, issues related to the Ketuba, as well as to alimony and child support, property matters, etc. Adv. Bar-Mocha’s vast experience includes thousands of hours of appearances before courts and rabbinical courts, and he is responsible for important legal achievements before rabbinical courts regarding matters of divorce, appeals to the Supreme Court in cases of rabbinical courts overstepping their authority, innovative changes regarding uniform Ketubot before the Supreme Rabbinical Court, division of assets and dissolutions in rabbinical courts and more.

Litigation in Courts and the Rabbinical Courts

In general, many lawyers do not appear in court. Adv. Bar-Mocha, however, has many years of experience and reputation litigating in family law courts, rabbinical courts, the great rabbinical court, district courts, and the Supreme Court, including the High Court of Justice. As a result, he is capable of evaluating the chances and risks of each case with a high degree of certainty. Indeed, he can appraise almost every legal situation from their fundamental, tactical and strategic aspects. Thanks to his enormous experience and to his skills, Adv. Bar-Mocha has amassed valuable knowledge and experience conducting cross-examinations and he is known as an indefatigable investigator.

One-Stop-Shop

Adv. Bar-Mocha has special expertise in the fields of civil law, commercial law and real estate that are relevant to family law - making it unnecessary in most cases to include additional expert lawyers. He is knowledgeable, experienced and skilled in leading negotiations - whether it be opposite the opposing side in courts or in the context of various mediation frameworks. Furthermore, Adv. Bar-Mocha is also capable of providing solutions regarding property and financial matters, as well as to manage a range of business issues. He is often appointed by various courts as a receiver for financial cases, as an executor of wills and as a reliable and honest implementer of court orders. Adv. Bar-Mocha maintains special expertise in appearing in rabbinical courts, including in cases and principle Halachas at the Great Rabbinical Courts in Jerusalem, which render the cost of service of Rabbinical pleaders redundant. He also profoundly specializes in reading financial reports and balance sheets, as well as maintaining a deep understanding of actuaries’ drafts and real estate worth evaluations for businesses and companies, including public companies, which renders multidisciplinary cooperation and representation with accountants, appraisers and others easy.

For the Community

Adv. Bar-Mocha contributed his time and skills to providing pro bono counsel to people who seek legal advice through welfare services, community programs, and other social frameworks. Furthermore, he contributed his academic training and his experience in the subject of legal psychology to the police and, among other initiatives, taught decision making processes in matters of violence within the family, based on legal research he conducted on this issue. Adv. Bar-Mocha volunteers to lecture in various forums, such as to the elderly when covid19 broke out, as well as in various organizations and communities. In recent years, Adv. Bar-Mocha has contributed to the community and to the strengthening of disadvantaged populations outside the law as well. Since covid19 entered our lives, Adv. Bar-Mocha contributed many zoom lectures to young lawyers and the Israeli Bar Association’s academy and seminars’ framework, and in various community entities, especially for communities in need of legal assistance regarding family law and inheritance law etc. during covid19. Adv. Bar-Mocha currently continues to contribute from his experience lectures which are called “The art and foundation of litigation in family courts and Rabbinical courts” in addition to being a regular lecturer in lectures and seminars or important panels regarding family and inheritance law in practice schools, and annually at the Israeli Bar Association’s central conference in Eilat.

Prominent Achievements

Adv. Bar-Mocha is among the leading lawyers in Israel who contributed to many significant rulings in the field of family and estate law over the years. Among his many achievements, he contributed to obtaining moderated rulings in district courts (currently family courts) and in rabbinical courts. For example, Adv. Bar-Mocha was involved in groundbreaking rulings on various matters, including issues of religious divorce, jurisdiction between couples of different religions, property and economic matters - Guiding law in district court, on betterment issues of companies and businesses, and a distinction between active and passive betterment, law in the great Rabbinical court regarding the value of a real estate asset as of the balance date, as opposed to the the actual date of realization, alimony cases, and a ruling about Ketuba unity. These cases were recognized as precedents by the Supreme Court and by the Supreme Rabbinical Court. His pioneering accomplishments are also visible in a range of business-related matters, including resource equalizing, property division, receiverships, and dissolving partnerships and companies, as well as matters related to ownership, corporations, real estate and inheritance cases.