Liane Kehat & Co., Law Offices and Notary

Liane Kehat Law Offices & Notary is a boutique law firm in Israel specializing in family and inheritance law, with expertise in private international law and cross-border matters.
The firm has been active for more than three decades and has extensive experience handling disputes involving multiple jurisdictions, international assets and foreign legal systems.
The firm is headed by Adv. Liane Kehat, who has more than 32 years of experience in family and inheritance law. She leads a legal team that includes attorneys and jurists who studied in France and other European Union universities.
Over the years the firm has built a reputation for professionalism, discretion and strong legal representation in complex and sensitive matters.
A significant portion of the firm’s work involves representing foreign residents and new immigrants in proceedings before Israeli courts. Many clients maintain assets or family ties in more than one country.
The firm regularly handles international inheritance disputes, cross-border divorce proceedings, recognition of foreign judgments and the application of foreign law in Israeli proceedings.

Core areas of practice

include family law, inheritance law, mediation and guardianship matters.
In family law the firm represents clients in divorce proceedings involving the division of financial assets, business interests, family companies and real estate property, including matters involving international assets. Representation includes alimony, divorce proceedings, child custody and visitation arrangements, parental alienation claims and domestic violence cases.
The firm also handles proceedings under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.
Adv. Liane Kehat and Adv. Gilor Nahum serve as mediators in family and inheritance disputes.
In inheritance law the firm represents clients in inheritance disputes and estate administration matters. The firm advises clients in drafting wills and mutual wills, agreements between heirs and the management of estates that include assets located in Israel and abroad.
Representation also includes probate proceedings and applications for inheritance orders before Israeli courts.
The firm represents clients in guardianship proceedings, including applications for the appointment of guardians for the person or property, often involving elderly individuals or vulnerable people requiring legal protection. Adv. Kehat herself has served as a court-appointed guardian.

The firm provides legal services to foreign residents and new immigrants in Israel.

The firm operates a French-language legal website dedicated to family and inheritance law matters: www.famille-successions.co.il
Adv. Kehat, herself a former immigrant, is fluent in French and English. She publishes legal articles in French and participates in international professional conferences dealing with family and inheritance law.
In 2024 she lectured at an international conference organized by the University of Lille in France on enduring powers of attorney.
In July 2025 she lectured at a conference in Paris on international divorce and inheritance matters.
In February 2026 she participated in a conference in Barcelona organized by the International Academy of Family Lawyers on private international family law.
In the same month she delivered a lecture at the Jerusalem District of the Israel Bar Association on international inheritance law.
In March 2025 a thirty-page academic article co-authored by Adv. Kehat and French colleagues on Franco-Israeli marriage, divorce and inheritance law was published in the French legal journal AJ Famille published by Dalloz.
Adv. Kehat also writes a monthly legal column in Israel Magazine, a French-language publication distributed throughout Europe and Israel.

Selected legal matters handled by the firm in recent years include appellate decisions before Israeli courts involving foreign residents or new immigrants.

In one matter the firm represented a French resident in an appeal before the Tel Aviv District Court which overturned a Family Court decision awarding the opposing party twenty-five percent of the client’s rights in a Tel Aviv apartment. The appellate court ruled that the Family Court lacked jurisdiction after determining that the parties were not common-law partners. The judgment was published.
Another decision involved a landmark ruling delivered by the Hon. Justice Shaul Shohat concerning the “central parent” mechanism used in calculating child support obligations in cases of shared custody where parents are unable to cooperate. The judgment was published.
The firm also represented clients in appellate proceedings before the Supreme Rabbinical Court in a case in which the court accepted an appeal filed by the firm and reduced a Ketubah obligation of five hundred thousand shekels. The case involved a husband who was a new immigrant to Israel. The judgment was published.
In another high-value financial dispute between new immigrants to Israel the firm represented a client in litigation involving a debt of tens of millions of shekels. The debtor argued that his wife was entitled to half of the attached assets, including Tel Aviv apartments valued at tens of millions of shekels. In several appellate decisions the Tel Aviv District Court accepted the firm’s appeals, expanded interim remedies and authorized the realization of part of the attached assets before a final judgment was rendered. The decisions were published.
The firm also represented a wife, a new immigrant from France, in appellate proceedings before the Tel Aviv District Court in which the husband sought to annul amendments to a divorce settlement that had been approved and given the force of a court judgment. The District Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the validity of the amended agreement. The judgment was published.
In proceedings before the Tel Aviv Rabbinical Court and the Supreme Rabbinical Court the firm represented a wife who had immigrated from France. The Rabbinical Court postponed the execution of the Jewish divorce until the Family Court determined the status of a jointly owned apartment and ordered the husband to pay one hundred and eighty thousand shekels pursuant to the Ketubah. The Supreme Rabbinical Court dismissed the husband’s appeal and ruled that he was responsible for the breakdown of the marriage due to his infidelity. The judgment was published.
The firm has also represented clients in international child abduction proceedings under the Hague Convention resulting in the return of minors to their habitual residence in France. The case was litigated through three judicial instances including the Supreme Court of Israel.

The firm’s legal team combines decades of experience in family and inheritance law.

Adv. Liane Kehat – Notary and mediator, LL.B., Tel Aviv University. Member of the Israeli Bar Association for more than 30 years and member of the National Family and Inheritance Law Forum.
Adv. Gilor Nahum, LL.B., M.B.A. – 16 years of experience in family and inheritance law and certified mediator.
Adv. Iris Rochel, LL.M., LL.B. – 24 years of experience specializing in complex estates, trusts, guardianship and inheritance law.
Adv. Shelly Pavel, LL.B., LL.M. (Belgium) – Attorney admitted in Israel.
Ms. Ruth Miran – Office Manager since the firm’s establishment.
Adv. Kehat volunteers in initiatives organized by the Jewish Agency assisting immigrants integrating into Israeli society.