Dlayahu Ronen & Co., Law Firm

Dlayahu Ronen & Co., founded in 1995 by the senior partner Ronen Dlayahu, is one of Israel’s longstanding leading family law and wills firms. The firm handles family law and wills, personal status, family estate management, and real estate.

The firm also provides arbitration services, family mediation, and “collaborative divorces”.
The firm has won significant legal rulings and precedents in courts, set by the Supreme Court.

The firm supports clients from initial legal consultation to selecting the strategy to conduct the case until completion of the required legal handling including representation before courts (Family Courts, Rabbinical Courts, District Court appeals, High-Court, and Supreme Court petitions), preparing the legal case according to the issue, drawing up agreements and contracts, and acting with government authorities.

The firm has ongoing work relations with professionals and experts in the firm’s areas of involvement such as private investigators, social workers, psychologists, land appraisers, financial experts, actuaries, etc. in order to ensure the best for clients who are the top priority in all the firm’s activities.

Dlayahu Ronen & Co. has been ranked for many years by D&B and BDI as one of the top 10 family law firms and was chosen as one of the best family law and wills firms by a “Maariv” survey.
In addition to Advocated Ronen Dlayahu and Omri Dlayahu, the firm several lawyers, all specialists in their fields: Advocates Hadas Zelkovich and Inna Morali-Finkelstein.

Professional Vision

The firm aspires to creative and practical solutions for its clients, placing a special stress on supporting the client in every stage of legal procedures with uncompromising professionalism and determination, personal attention, and recognizing the client’s difficult feelings in a time of crisis.

Uncompromising Professionalism, Integrity, Personal Attention

With a deep understanding of the sensitive field in which it specializes, the firm pursues the client’s benefit at all times. In a highly personal and private specialization, this requires a combination of uncompromising professionalism, and personal attention and client support throughout the process to reach the best and most professional results.
The personal attention that the firm offers clients emphasizes the sensitivity required to handle such cases. For this reason, the firm often consults with trained professionals such as therapists, mainly in cases involving children.

Over the years, Dlayahu Ronen & Co. has gained a reputation for integrity and is particular in providing legal services of the highest order in terms of professionalism with close support from lawyers and constant consultations, and supervision with the firm’s other lawyers, involving the client in all stages of procedures.

Practice Areas

The firm handles wide range of cases in the areas of family law and inheritance law, including drafting wills, filing objections to a will, family estate management, “inter-generational” planning, estate management, application for a will order, application for an inheritance order, alimonies, determining stay times with minors, adoption, child abduction procedures, balancing of resources, property distribution, financial relations and financial claims, common law marriage, marriage and divorce, and ways to settle family disputes.

Wills and Inheritance
The firm provides clients with legal services and representation in matters relating to drafting of wills, objections to probate orders, objections to inheritance orders, requests for probate orders, requests for inheritance orders, family wealth management, “inter-generational” planning, estate management, agreements between heirs, and more.

Family Laws
The firm is engaged in child support, their housing, wife support and specific allocations. In the parental and child field the firm assist in matters relating to stay times with minors, adoptions, surrogacy, same sex families, one parent families, emigrating abroad with minors, international child abduction according to the “Hague Convention” custodianship for minors, paternity suits and DNA tests.

Financial Relations and Claims
The firm provides its clients with legal services on marriage certificates, receivership, family disputes on agricultural plots and land, assessing the value and reputation of family companies, family taxation issues, family torts claims, liquidation and sharing land and belongings, balancing of resources, actuary balancing and dividing pension rights between couples, dividing future earning ability, prenuptial and divorce agreements.

Marriage and Divorce
The firm supports clients in maintaining and violating marriage, prenuptial agreements, common law agreements, marriage prevention suits and bastards, marriage settlement suits, family libel suits, private investigations in divorce and protecting privacy, refusal to grant divorce and inter-faith marriage licenses.

On Ways to Settle Family Disputes
The firm is engaged in various suits authorized by the Family Court, in procedures in the Rabbinical Courts, in ‘competing authorities’ in various Family Court, District Court and Supreme Court procedures, in family agreements, arbitration, family mediation between couples and “consensual” divorces.

Adv. Ronen Dlayahu has also specialized over the years in the subject of dividing up “human capital” and “career assets,” the field in which he completed his doctorate, and represents public figures and celebrities in these important areas.

The Firm’s Management

Adv. Ronen Dlayahu, Founder and Partner
Is considered a litigator, arbitrator, and mediator with a reputation in his field. B.A. Politics and International Relations, Hebrew University; LL.B. Tel Aviv University and LL.M. Bar-Ilan University and Ph.D. Law. He has been practicing law since 1995.
He served for a number of years as Chairman of the Israel Bar Association’s Tel Aviv District Family Affairs Committee. He is currently chairman of the Israel Bar Association’s National Forum for Family Law and lectures the Israeli government Welfare Ministry’s Central School for Welfare Workers. He also lectures to the Israel Bar Association on other public matters as well as at the Kiryat Ono Legal College. He sits on a government committee headed by Emeritus Judge Yehoshua Gross examining reforms to the Child Adoption Law.

Adv. Dlayahu is a recognized authority in his field and presents a weekly legal program on Tel Aviv’s Radio 102FM.
In 2014, Adv. Dlayahu was awarded the Israel Bar fellowship for his major contribution to the development of studies and enhancement of Israel’s family law sector.
Ronen also authored the book: “Where Love Ends”.

Adv. Omri Dlayahu, Senior Partner
Adv. Omri Dlayahu has an LL.B. and a B.A., Business Administration specializing in real estate, from Reichman University. On top of his academic degrees Omri certified to perform lasting power of attorney and can represent buyers/sellers in real estate transactions.

Adv. Omro Dlayahu believes in amicable conversations, as well as in humanity, fairness, and decency between people.
In addition to his work, he serves in the paratroopers’ brigade (res.), where he leads formations for military service candidates, who wish to enlist in the paratrooper brigade.