Maya Rotenberg Law Office

Maya Rotenberg, Law Office is a leading family law firm specializing in divorce, wills, inheritance, property division, child custody and visitation arrangements, joint custody, child and spousal support, marital and divorce agreements, lasting powers of attorney, family mediation, child abduction cases, and more.

About Maya Rotenberg

Adv. and Mediator Maya Rotenberg, LL.B., specializes in divorces and represents in civil and rabbinical courts. Before founding the firm, she accumulated long-lasting extensive experience as an associate at some of Israel’s largest family law firms. After gaining vast experience and a deep understanding of the field, she established her own firm. Alongside her legal work, she served as a TA in academic family law courses and volunteered in a battered women’s shelter. Among other achievements, Adv. Maya Rotenberg has led the publicized family law revolution concerning child support (represented the father). She is often interviewed by media outlets and prepares legal opinions on Israeli child support matters for various countries across the world.

Leading Divorce Mediator

Adv. Maya Rotenberg has been involved in complex and difficult divorce cases that revolutionized the marital status field. She works with great sensitivity in all of the cases that she manag-es. Her mediations follow the unique method of “Mediation in Two” where a lawyer and a social worker collaborate, and her clients benefit from a comprehensive umbrella of services for separations or family disputes. She understands her clients’ “language”, their perspective and emotional drivers, enabling her to facilitate amicable mediation agreements while avoiding unnecessary disputes and conflict. Furthermore, when Adv. Rotenberg senses that a spark still exists, she refers the couple to therapy with the aim of returning their relationship back on track. She has distinct expertise in all aspects of the “New Family”, representing same-sex families in adoptions, nuptial agreements, common law marriage agreements, cohabitation agreements and relationship agreements.
The most important legal precedents of family law and divorces of the past few years were outlined by Adv. Rotenberg, including Supreme Court Case 919/15 (the child support revolution) and Bagatz 7880/21 (merged with Bagatz 5988/21) that determined that rabbinical courts have no jurisdiction to rule on child support in divorce cases.

Leading the Revolutionary Ruling of Supreme Court Case 919/15

Over the years, Adv. Maya Rotenberg has made a name for herself as a first-class professional who fights for her clients and justice, with sharp litigation skills and the capability to manage complex and intricate divorce cases that may seem unsolvable, achieving the best possible results. A prominent example is her success in leading to the most important and revolutionary legal precedents of recent years (SCC 919/15) which determined that a father in joint custody does not have to automatically pay child support to his divorcee, and that child support sums would be relative to the earning capacities of the parents, the visitation arrangements, and the children needs. This ruling, from 2017, is a major pillar in the current family law realm and is quoted in most divorce case rulings. In many additional cases, Adv Rotenberg obtained joint custody terms for fathers, including in extreme situations. Adv. Maya Rotenberg also excels in the representation of women – for example, achieving higher-than-customary alimony in the rabbinical courts, Ktuba sum in addition to half the property, and rejection of parental alienation claims. She also specializes in complex cases of company liquidations and splitting shares and options between the spouses.

Multilingual Team and First-Class Advisors

The firm’s team includes five seasoned lawyers, with vast legal knowledge and extensive experience in representing clients before various courts and tribunals including in criminal cases and police investigations, such as in protection orders. The firm collaborates with a network of top-tier external experts including private investigators, psychologists, tax consultants, real estate appraisers and behavior analysts. The firm’s team is multilingual and handles a broad range of cases including cases with aspects of international private law and foreign clients, international estates and child abduction. In this framework, the firm cooperates with local firms in the relevant countries. Adv. Rotenberg’s opinions on child support and custody are accept-ed by courts across the world. Over the years, this Tel-Aviv-based firm has established itself as a professional authority in family law in general and in matters of child support and custody in particular. The firm also has expertise in family wealth management including, inter alia, protecting family assets, managing family economic disputes, formulating a family char-ter/convention, mediation and handling business disputes, management of family-owned companies and consulting on trusts and taxation.

Inheritance and Wills

Recently, Adv. Rotenberg achieved a significant legal victory in the field of inheritance and wills, persuading the court to annul a will that had been signed by the deceased under the influ-ence of family members, and which disinherited his two minor children.

Complex High-Net-Worth Divorces

Adv. Maya Rotenberg specializes in complex divorce cases of couples with wealth and ownership of companies. She specializes in distributing options and stocks (vested and unvested).

Advanced Preparation for Legal Incapacitation

Adv. Rotenberg is certified to prepare lasting powers of attorney, enabling a client to determine the person who would be able to make decisions for them and set care instructions for a case of legal incapacitation. This is an important tool in the management of a family unit and enables every person to control their future. The firm counsels and prepares lasting powers of attor-ney, as well as living wills and advance directives – in accordance with the Deathbed Patient Law.

Client Service as a Strategic Value of the Firm

The firm’s mission is to provide service at the highest work standards, while prioritizing the client’s needs, building the right strategy and offering accessible and fast professional responses at any given moment. Alongside the strong service-orientation and the vast legal proficiency, the firm is characterized by thorough and deep research of every case that it manages, and im-pressive litigation and cross-examination capabilities in complex divorce cases and other family matters. Over the years, these pillars have positioned the firm as one of Israel’s top firms in its practice areas.

Action Over Words

The firm believes in action as a way of life and its lawyers emphasize highly focused legal work that leads to the best results for the clients. Each case is tailored to the needs and situation of the client, who is a partner in the firm’s strategy from the beginning. This is the reason that Adv. Rotenberg is revolutionizing family law.

Equality, Integrity and Openness

The firm’s three core values are equality, integrity and openness, both towards clients and to the various courts and tribunals. The equality value entails joint parenting and equality between the parents, reflecting also equal legal rights when a family is dissolved. Integrity is expressed by managing the firm’s cases in a reliable, friendly and fully transparent manner towards the counterparty, as life continues after the divorce agreement or procedure and the divorcees would have to meet and discuss the future of their shared children. Openness is expressed through early minesweeping of each case, through in-depth research into the personal, professional, financial and other aspects of her clients’ lives. Through this she is prepared for any claim that the counterparty may raise and her accurate responses provide points on the way to winning the case, with the results in the cases she manages speaking for themselves.