Liat Zach Law Office

Liat Zach, Law Office is a boutique law firm that specializes in the full spectrum of family law including cases of divorce, custody, common law spouses, alimony and child support, division of property, nuptial agreements, joint living agreements, property claims, marital harmony, child abduction, etc. The firm has specific specializations in cases of domestic violence, representation of Israelis who reside abroad in divorces in the international legal field and in parental alienation claims. The firm also practices inheritance, including drafting wills, contesting wills, estate management, heirs claims and alimony from the estate. The firm was founded by Adv. Liat Zach, a seasoned legal expert with 20 years of accumulated experience in family law, divorce, mediation and criminal law, and to date it has accompanied complex cases in courts of all levels while creating legal precedents and achieving noteworthy victories.

Separating the Wheat from the Chaff

Adv. Zach has an LL.B. and an LL.M. with honors, has been a member of the Israel Bar Association since 2003, and is a certified mediator and notary. Before founding her private firm, Adv. Zach was a partner in one of Israel’s leading family law firms for more than a decade, and she also interned in the State Attorney Office and the Ministry of Defense. Liat represents her clients in the family courts, the rabbinical courts, and the appeal courts, and she selects the cases that she handles very carefully, while examining the best strategy. in every case. This capability enables Liat to understand the material anchor issues which are uncompromisable, and the more negligible issues, that by agreeing on them a fast overall agreement can be reached to the satisfaction of both parties.

Representation from a Sense of Mission

Since divorce proceedings are emotionally and mentally difficult and complex, especially in cases where children are involved, Adv. Zach arrives to her office every day with a sense of mission to help her clients reach an appropriate agreement as fast as possible, to divorce and start a new and happier life for them and their children. The firm is characterized by the personal attention it pays to each client, the full availability, the vast experience in negotiating and drafting agreements and also in representation in complex proceedings in the courts and the rabbinical courts. The firm’s guiding principle is to aim to reach an agreement that respects both sides, to continue and raise the children in a joint and friendly manner also after the divorce proceedings are completed.

Expertise in the Field of Parental Alienation

Liat greatly believes in the importance of joint parenting and has made a name for herself as an expert of the phenomena of parental alienation, where one of the spouses severely maligns the children against the other spouse. Adv. Zach is very proficient in the latest legal tools which are derived from the new Supreme Court Procedure for handling parental alienation, and considering her deep understanding of this field and her vast experience in such lawsuits she lectures and manages forums and seminars in this area in the Israel Bar Association’s Central District. She also receives parental alienation cases which are referred to her by external firms.

Notable Cases

Charging an estranged father with financial sanctions - In a difficult case of parental alienation in which our office represented the mother, the court required the father to cooperate with a parental alienation specialist who was appointed at our request in the case and required the father to bring the children to her for permanent meetings while establishing a sanction that the children’s failure to arrive for treatment would require the father with a high financial sanction. Only after this decision, the estranged father cooperated, the children came to the treatment and as a result agreed to have contact with the mother.
Quick actions carried out in the case are the ones that led to the renewal of the relationship between the mother represented by our office and her children.

The Duty of Good Faith in the Race of Jurisdictions Between Israel and Germany: The firm won a court decision in the Petach Tikva Family Court, which determined that the appropriate forum for adjudicating the matter of two Israelis would be in Germany (where the family resided in the past few years due to a relocation) despite the fact that the wife was the first to file proceedings, for a dispute resolution proceeding in Israel. Our firm applied for a court decision that the appropriate forum for adjudication would be in Germany and argued that the wife lacked good faith in her conduct, by failing to provide the husband with the lawfully required copy of the dispute resolution application and to appear to the initial “Information, Acquaintance and Coordina-tion” (“Mahut”) meeting, as required by the new regulations. The court accepted all of our arguments and ruled that the wife should have provided the request for dispute resolution as lawfully required and that when taking into account all of the situation’s aspects, the husband met the burden for proving that another forum would be more appropriate to adjudicate their matter, in the German family court .

The Duty of Good Faith in Managing Legal Proceedings: Normally, the family courts enable to accept any evidence in the case and are flexible in this area, but in a case that was represented by our firm the court disqualified evidence that was submitted during the legal proceedings, with the transcript of a confidential mediation meeting in the Assistance Unit. The court accepted our application, disqualified this unfit evidence and determined that there was a fault in recording a confidential mediation meeting in the Assistance Unit. The court ordered the other party to pay the court costs.

Granting permission to marry a second wife - The rabbinical court recently granted one of the firm’s clients the chance to marry a second wife, after his first wife refused his divorce and violated the rulings of the rabbinical court, which required her to do so. She then filed an appeal with the High Rabbinical Court and was rejected. The court also ordered her to cover all costs, due to her dishonest conduct.