Irit Reichman & Co. - Law office

Irit Reichman & Co. Law Firm is one of Israel’s most longstanding firms in the fields of family law and inheritance, which over the years led a range of legal precedents that set criteria in family law. The firm handles complex family issues including dealing with all aspects of divorce proceedings, property claims between spouses and handling matters of family capital and wealth.

The firm also specializes in all matters relating to inheritance, estate management, drafting wills and inheritance disputes. The firm has rich experience in family law, including legal representation before all courts including family courts, rabbinical courts, district courts, and the Supreme Court. The firm maintains experience in mediation and conducting negotiations regarding family issues, with numerous achievements in settling disputes through agreements between parties. Considering the extreme sensitivity of its areas of expertise, the firm’s staff emphasizes the emotional support of its clients in every step of the legal proceedings, with professional and innovative legal counsel that provides creative solutions. The firm is diligent in partaking in professional training, conventions, and seminars in its field. The firm maintains 2 branches in Jerusalem, in “Beit Ha Shenhav” on 12 Beit Ha Dfus Street, and in Tel Aviv, in “Migdalei Ha Arbaa”, on 28 Ha Arbaa Street.

Our Practice Areas

Family Businesses: The firm is highly experienced in managing family business disputes, including extensive experience in everything related to managing the relations between a family member in both the business aspects and additional aspects, while handling a wide range of challenges and issues relating to both business and family.

Property and Prenuptial Agreements: The firm provides solutions for a wide range of family issues related to drafting property agreements between married spouses, common life agreements, people getting married, common-law spouses and divorce agreements. The firm has more than 30 years of experience in supporting and drafting such agreements. The firm’s staff provides routine consultancy and close and personal support throughout the agreement’s formulation stages, from the negotiations between the parties, defining its clauses, providing creative and customized solutions, and approving the agreement in the family court to incorporate it into a decree.

Wills, Inheritances and Managing Estates: The firm is experienced in legal representation in complex family issues in inheritance law. The firm’s staff is highly experienced and knowledgeable in drafting wills, complex high-net-worth mutual wills, heirs estate division agreements, estate management, inheritance and will orders applications, contesting and defending wills. In addition, the firm has extensive experience in legal representation before the courts in complex inheritance disputes.

Divorce Proceedings: Thefirm provides legal support in divorce proceedings, including suits to the Family Court and Rabbinical Court on property matters, child support and alimony and custody of children. The firm maintains expertise in negotiating between the divorcing parties to reach a successful agreement for its clients. The firm has vast experience in legal handling of divorce agreements, divorce refusals, and filing tort suits to the courts in these fields. The firm also specializes in representation in legal proceedings between common-law spouses. In all these, the firm combines a broad perspective including property and capital issues such as career assets, pension rights, and company acquisitions.

Lasting Power of Attorney: The firm is certified to sign “lasting power of attorney” according to the Legal Capacity and Guardianship law, 1962.

Mediation: The firm is proficient and experienced in managing complex divorce proceedings. Adv. Irit Reichman, Adv. Michal Reichman-Littwin and Adv. Merav Reichman-Shaked are certified mediators and are experienced in managing mediation proceedings and dispute settlements in complex family issues and matters of inheritance, property, custody and child support. This enables the firm to provide optimal results for its clients, regardless of the dispute’s legal manner. The firm views direct communication and mutual consent as important ways to end disputes, prior to legal proceedings, due to the personal price both parties and their children pay.

Prominent Achievements and Precedents

While managing legal proceedings, the firm won a long line of legal precedents that received the media’s attention. Recently, the firm had an outstanding achievement in a precedential and publicized judgment, where the Jerusalem Family Court disqualified a will under which a childless woman allegedly bequeathed all her property to her two brothers and nephew, not her second spouse who nursed her in her last years. The court accepted the position of the man, who was represented by our firm, that the woman wasn’t medically competent when signing the will. In another precedential judgment, the family court accepted our claim and instructed to cancel a transaction of transfer without consideration between the husband and his mother and determined that the wife, represented by our firm, is eligible to half the rights in the apartment that the husband planned to transfer to his mother. An additional precedent was in The Great Rabbinical Court, where the firm won an appeal that the wife submitted and rejected the husband’s demand to close the divorce case. The husband claimed that he doesn’t wish to divorce, but the Rabbinical Court determined that his entire purpose in this claim was to transfer the property dispute to the family courts.

The Firm’s Attorneys

Founder and Owner, Mediator, and Notary Adv. Irit Reichman - LL.B. Law Tel Aviv University. Qualified as a personal coach by IKA and the Israel Center for Management. Certified as a Mediator by the Technion since 1998 under the auspices of the Israel Center for Negotiations and Resolution of Disputes. Appointed as a Notary since 1998. Member of the Family Court Committee of the Israel Bar Association, Jerusalem District. Member of the Israel Bar Association since 1982. Adv. Reichman was certified to sign a “lasting power of attorney” according to the Legal Capacity and Guardianship law, 1962.

Partner, Adv. and Mediator Michal Reichman-Littwin: LL.B. Law and B.A. Government with a specialization in the Division for Resolving International Conflicts, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya. LL.M. Law Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Member of the Israel Bar Association since 2010. Certified as a Mediator by the Israel Bar Association. Completed an advanced training course in Family Law and Inheritance given by the Israel Bar Association. Adv. Reichman-Littwin was certified to sign a “lasting power of attorney” according to the Legal Capacity and Guardianship law, 1962.

Partner, Adv. and Mediator Merav Reichman-Shaked: LL.B. Law and B.A. Business Administration with a specialization in Marketing, IDC Herzliya. LL.M. Law, Tel Aviv University. Completed an advanced training course in Family Law and Inheritance given by the Israel Bar Association. Member of the Israel Bar Association since 2012. Adv. Reichman-Shaked was certified to sign a “lasting power of attorney” according to the Legal Capacity and Guardianship law, 1962.