Geron - Gilboa, Law Office

Geron – Gilboa, Law Office is a leading boutique law firm which specializes in family and inheritance law, guardianship, and lasting power of attorney, and has a particular specialization in handling and accompanying the fights of parents over their children and complex inheritance disputes. The vast and longstanding experience of the firm, which was founded in 1955, leads to the deep professional knowledge and the professional excellence for which it is renowned, and also to its extraordinary reputation.

Three Generations of Professoinal Excellence

As a family-run firm, the firm relies on three generations of lawyers, and is also managed as a family, with a devoted and skilled team of lawyers that have been working in the firm for 20-50 years. The stability of the team leads to personal, deep and thorough familiarity between the firm’s clients and its team, which is entrusted with taking care of the clients in their time of crisis. The firm’s clients benefit from the added value of its vast experience, from the aspects of the extensive accumulated knowledge, the longstanding experience and resulting professionalism, and the personal familiarity and devoted service, which is provided by a stable and familiar. And indeed, the firm, which has been operating for 69 years in light of its goal to handle people, not cases, combines and expresses all of the above through holistic thinking, which prioritizes the clients.
The crisis which people undergo in the framework of a separation or a divorce, on both the personal and the economic level, leads to the holistic perspective that guides the firm, and the comprehensive umbrella it offers its clients.

A Holistic and Comprehensive Umbrella of Professional Services

The firm’s motto is to handle people rather than cases, and with this agenda the firm elects to provide a holistic umbrella of comprehensive professional services to its clients.
The firm maintains collaborations with professionals from diverse fields who assist the clients through their crisis and organize and facilitate their insurances, home economy, therapy and coaching aspects, which together create added value for the clients, who are referred to first-class professionals and are confident in the recommendations that they received.
Occasionally, the firm refers its clients to a counsel meeting with these experts at no cost, as the firm counts on them to assist the clients in their crisis. Furthermore, the firm refers to mental health professionals on matters such as parental guidance, parent training, tools on the best way to separate, children in crisis situations, and to coaches to strengthen and drive their motivation.
This unique strength of the firm provides a comprehensive umbrella for every life aspect of the clients, who are undergoing an upheaval, whereas also for the children the goal is to mitigate the damages and avoid, as much possible, a legal struggle which rides on their backs.

The Firm’s Team

Adv. Menahem Geron - Adv. Geron graduated from the Law Faculty of Tel Aviv University. He is an expert in Real Estate and specializes in complex real estate transactions. Adv. Geron is an active member of the Petach Tikva Committee of the Israel Bar Association Tel Aviv District, serves as an arbitrator on behalf of the Israel Bar Association, as a prosecutor in the Israel Bar Association’s disciplinary court. He is a certified notary and has several certifications from seminars in Bar Ilan University in the fields of intellectual property, computer law, and internet law.
Adv. Lorit Geron-Gilboa - Adv. Geron-Gilboa graduated from IDC Herzliya with an LL.B. and holds a B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology from Bar Ilan University.
Adv. Lorit Geron-Gilboa has been practicing family and inheritance law for 25 years and representing men and women before the family courts and the rabbinical courts on matters of divorce, division of property, custody and visitation arrangements, alimony and child support. She also specializes in accompanying couples in the drafting of nuptial agreements and joint living agreements for common law spouses, divorce agreements, and parenting agreements. Adv. Geron-Gilboa was also trained and certified to lead cooperative divorces processes, and is entrusted with matters of inheritance, guardianship and lasting power of attorney. Adv. Geron-Gilboa is also a certified mediator.
Adv. Geron-Gilboa specializes in complex and intricate cases, including cases where the family is experiencing a great emotional turmoil in the framework of the separation / divorce process, and also serves as a legal guardian for minors, on behalf of the family courts and the rabbinical courts. In light of her unique experience, Adv. Geron-Gilboa serves as a voice for the children who undergo the family turmoil and are sometimes unheard.
The representation of the minors provides Adv. Geron-Gilboa with added value also in cases where she represents parents in custody struggles and children disputes while prioritizing the children’s benefit and minimizing the expected damage of a long struggle which is often carried out on the children’s back.
Adv. Shani Zecher Gabai - Adv. Zecher Gabai is a seasoned lawyer in the firm of Geron – Gilboa, who arrived to the firm in 2010, as a pre-intern. She serves as the right hand of Adv. Geron-Gilboa and together, in perfect synergy and brainstorming, the customize a strategic plan for each client.
Adv. Zecher Gabai works with Adv. Geron-Gilboa on most of the cases in the firm, so that the clients get personal attention and maximal availability from two lawyers.

Practice Areas

The main practice area of the firm is family and inheritance law, led by Adv. Lorit Geron-Gilboa, together with the firm’s longstanding team.
The firm accompanies its clients in legal proceedings in the full spectrum of family and inheritance law matters, starting from divorce lawsuits and every aspect of breaking up a family, child support claims, alimony claims, parental responsibility and parent time schedules, liquidation of partnerships and balancing of resources and more complex property matters such as business valuations, shares and securities, salary gaps etc. The firm has vast experience in managing parental alienation proceedings against both mothers and fathers and also damages claims on grounds of estrangement.
The firm represents in tribunals and courts of all levels, in both the rabbinical and family courts, including appeal courts in the district and Supreme Court and the Great Rabbinical Court.The firm also specializes in drafting standard and special and complex wills, and has longstanding experience in accompanying various inheritance-related legal proceedings, including objections to wills or probates, estate management, probate and estate administration, lawsuit to determine the extent of the estate and preparing a lasting power of attorney. The firm has also been practicing video-witnessing wills and complex wills that pertain to special-needs heirs, including trust mechanisms. Adv. Menahem Geron, one of the oldest lawyers in Israeli in this field, leads the real estate department. The firm provides clients with counsel and assistance on all matters pertaining to real estate transaction, contracts or disputes, including sale and purchase transactions, drafting agreements, rent transactions, title examination, mortgages, purchasing from a contractor, Tama 38 and Pinui-Binui transactions, and purchasing groups. During its decades of professional experience, Adv. Geron represented landowners in the “Inbal Or” affair (in the “Or BaShdera” project) and obtained for his clients funds for covering the owner liabilities, without delivering the land to her, and even managed to contract with new developers and maximize the terms for the landowners.The firm has vast experience in managing legal proceedings in guardianship cases, objections to such appointments or application for the appointment of a guardian in light of the medical condition and inability of a person to manage their own financial affairs and make healthcare-related decisions.