Maya Rotenberg Law Office

Rotenberg Law Firm is a leading family and inheritance law firm which specializes in divorce, divorce agreements, division of properties, custody, joint custody, stay arrangements, alimony and child support, marital agreements, preparation of wills, and family mediations, child abduction, and more.

Adv. Maya Rotenberg

Adv. Maya Rotenberg, who specializes in divorce, holds an LL.B. Prior to founding the firm, she accumulated years of experience as an associate in Israel’s largest family law firms. After gaining extensive experience and understanding of the field, she decided to establish her own practice. Alongside her legal practice, she served as a TA in family law courses and volunteered in a women’s shelter. Inter alia, she represented fathers and led the family law revolution concerning child support. She is also a sought-after guest in media outlets and is often asked to draft opinions regarding alimony in Israel for various countries worldwide.

A Leading Divorce Mediator

Adv. Rotenberg acts with great sensitivity in all the cases in which she serves as mediator with a unique method, especially in light of her identification with the distress of clients who come to her during difficult times. Adv. Rotenberg conducts a “Mediation for Two” procedure together with an attorney and a social worker, and provides clients with comprehensive services regarding the separation of parties, or family disputes. As part of her longstanding experience, she understands the clients’ language and motivating emotions, and creates voluntary mediation agreements without unnecessary struggles. Furthermore, if she sees a spark still exists between the spouses, she directs them to marital counseling in order to achieve reconciliation and rehabilitate their relationship. In addition, she maintains a unique specialty in all aspects of “The New Family” and she represents same-sex families in adoptions, and in marital, common-law marriage, joint-living, and spouses’ agreements.

The Most Important Family Law Precedent in Recent Years, SFA 919/15.

In July 2017, Adv. Rotenberg set the most important and revolutionary family law legal precedent of recent years, which was included in the Supreme Court’s verdict regarding Supreme Family Appeal 919/15 and affects almost every divorce case in both family and rabbinical courts. The precedent set a new child support rule as undermentioned. Over the years, the firm became an authority for family law in general and child support and custody in particular. In addition, the firm specializes in family capital management, including protection of family assets, managing financial family disputes, drafting family constitutions/covenants, mediations, and dispute settlement in businesses, managing family companies and advisory regarding trusts and taxation processes.

A Multilingual Team and a Team of Unrivaled Advisors

The firm’s team includes five experienced lawyers with extensive knowledge and experience regarding the representation of clients before the various courts, including in criminal cases and police investigations, such as protection orders. Furthermore, a list of first-class professionals and experts are at the firm’s disposal, including private investigators, psychologists, tax advisors, real estate appraisers and aptitude testers. The firm’s team is multilingual and handles a wide variety of cases, including cases that involve international private law issues and foreign clients, such as cases that involve inheritance and estates abroad and child abduction cases. In this framework, the firm cooperates with local law firms in the relevant countries. In a multilingual team, Adv. Rotenberg leads the family law practice and her legal opinions regarding alimony and custody are accepted by courts across the world.

Cancellation of a Will

Adv. Rotenberg recently won a legal achievement in the field of wills, as she convinced the court to revoke the will of a man who was signed by his family, leaving his two minor children out of his estate.

The High Court of Justice regarding the Jurisdiction of the Court the Adjudicate Child Support

Adv. Rotenberg is currently managing an important and precedential High Court of Justice case regarding child support and the jurisdiction or lack thereof of the Rabbinical Court to adjudicate child support. Currently, after hearing Adv. Rotenberg’s claims, the legislator tried to intervene and submitted a proposal to amend the Rabbinical Courts’ law.

Leading the SFA 919/15 Revolution in Family Law

Over the years, Adv. Rotenberg became renowned as an outstanding professional who fights for her clients and justice, and a sharp litigator who handles complex divorce cases that seem unsolvable, while achieving the best results. One of the prominent examples of this is her successful precedent setting case in 2017 (Supreme Family Appeal 919/15), in which the Supreme Court, which discussed the appeal in an extended 7-judge panel, determined that a father in a joint custody case would not automatically pay child support to his ex-wife as was the custom in Hebrew Law for many years, rather that the child support sums would be determined relatively to both parents’ salaries, the visiting arrangements and the child’s needs. This 2017 ruling serves as a significant pillar in the family law field and is quoted in most of divorce rulings. Adv. Rotenberg managed to achieve joint custody terms for fathers in numerous other cases, including extreme situations. Adv. Rotenberg is highly successful also in representing women – for example, one of her clients received higher-than-accepted alimony in the rabbinical court, including her Ktuba sum. In addition, a father’s claim regarding parental alienation was stricken. Adv. Rotenberg specializes in complex cases of company liquidation and the division of shares and options between spouses.

Service as a Strategic Value

The firm provides its clients with services at the highest standards, while prioritizing their needs, constructing an appropriate strategy and with availability and a fast and professional response at all times. Beyond its high service-orientation and extensive knowledge, the firm is characterized by its thorough work in every case it handles, and in its impressive litigation and cross-examination abilities in complex divorce cases, and family law matters.
Over the years, these pillars turned the firm into one of the leaders of its practice area.

Preparation for Loss of Legal Capacity

Adv. Rotenberg is certified to LPAs, through which clients can determine the people who will make decisions on their behalf and provide instructions for cases of mental incapacitation. LPAs are important for the management of families and enable people to control their future. This practice area includes counsel and preparation of LPA and living wills.

“More Action, Less Talk”

The firm believes in action as a way of life and therefore its lawyers emphasize highly focused legal actions that achieve optimal results for the clients. In addition, every case is tailored to the client’s needs, who is involved in the strategy that the firm constructs. This is the reason Adv. Rotenberg leads a revolution in family law.

Equality, Integrity, and Sincerity

The firm’s operations are based on three core values: equality, integrity and sincerity, towards both clients and courts. The equality value entails joint and equal parenting, including equal rights in divorce. Integrity is expressed in managing cases in a reliable, friendly, and fully transparent matter towards the other party, stemming from the belief that life continues after the divorce agreements and the divorcees will have to maintain a dialogue or meet in their children’s future. Sincerity is expressed in early mine-sweeping in every case, including studying of all aspects of the clients’ lives, in preparation for every claim the other party may make, as her replies score points on the way to victory.