Michael Weiss Law Firm

Michael Weiss Law Firm practices family and inheritance law and provides a comprehensive solution to its clients in this field, and also in the fields of civil-commercial litigation and cooperatives law. The firm is a multi-generational family firm with about 40 years of experience and it has been growing constantly and consistently. In the family and inheritance practive area, the firm handles the full spectrum of matters within this fascinating field, including complex divorce disputes, division of properties of all types including real estate and shares, inheritance disputes, visitation rights disputes, disputes concerning the education framework of the children after the divorce, domestic relocation and immigration (outside of Israel), proceedings under the Hague Child Abduction Convention, alimony claims, child support claims, domestic violence, parental alienation etc. The firm also specializes in civil-commercial litigation and in this framework it represent a wide variety of clients, including private entities, corporations and cooperatives, in various legal tribunals including appeal committees, arbitrations, mediations etc.

Complex and Challenging Cases

Over the years, the firm handled complex cases that included unique family law issues beyond the classic issues of alimony and division of properties. The firm is renowned as an uncompromising firm which strives towards victory in any situation, and over the years it has been doing so and achieving impressive legal results, even in cases that seemed lost. The legal assistance and counsel which is provided by the firm is of a very high quality and is based on knowledge, experience, creativity, determination and first and foremost an understanding of the involved parties and their motivations.

Autorized to Prepare Lasting Power of Attorney

The firm is authorized by the Guardian General of the Ministry of Justice to preapare lasting power of attorney, preliminary guardian appointment instructions and expression of will documents. The firm also provides services on matters of wills, inhertience, inter-generational transfers, and the establishment of trusts, which makes matters much easier for the clients.

The Partners

The firm is headed by Adv. Michael Weiss who specializes in family and inheritance law, civil – commercial litigation, intellectual property, commercial law and real estate. Adv. Noa Weiss Mor works from her office in Kibbutz Kinneret, and mainly represents members of the Kibbutz in matters of family law and litigation cases in the courts. She also counsels and represents vis-à-vis the cooperative on matters relating to cooperatives law and conducts mediations on various matters, serves as an arbitrator on behalf of the Arbitration and Mediation Institute of the Kibbutz Movement and the Cooperatives Registrar.

Branches in Central and Northern Israel

The main branch of the firm is located in Ramat HaHayal, Tel Aviv, near the courts of the Central District of Israel. Another branch is located in Kibbutz Kinneret, and is managed by Adv. Noa Weiss Mor. The northern branch specializes in cooperatives law, and in particular in the representation of Kibbutz members in courts of various levels, in disputes concerning the allocation of apartments, pensions, safety net, Kibbutz expansions and admissions, family law and mediations.

A Familial Attitude and Legal Excellence

The firm has a team of very experienced and skilled lawyers, and its clients benefit from first-class legal capabilities, wrapped by a warm and familial service, with close personal service.

Selected Cases

Representation of a widow against the three children of the deceased (from a previous marriage) in the Kiryat Shmona Family Court and the Nazareth District Court – The case included complex legal proceedings that started with an application for a temporary injunction that would prevent the children from placing a tombstone on the grave without the agreement of the widow (in a highly unusual manner, a temporary injunction was given ex parte and after a court session an court-recommended agreement was reached). Afterwards, an objection to a mutual will that the deceased signed with his first wife. After a ruling was issues, an appeal to the district court was filed. Simultaneously, a lawsuit was filed by the insurance company Harel on the matters of insurance payouts of the deceased, which amounted to NIS 2.2 million, on the matter of who would receive the payouts. The firm won this lawsuit and simultaneously filed separate lawsuits against other provident funds on the allocation of the payouts. Proceedings are still ongoing vis-à-vis the children on matters of the liquidation of a shared real estate property and bank account.

Representation of mother of two minors in the Tel Aviv Family Court and the Tel Aviv District Court against the Father/Divorcee – a dispute that has been going on for years, intermittently, on the matters of the child support and visitation rights of the two minors. Shortly after the child support was ruled and a moment before the District Court session to discuss the mutual appeals that the parties filed, the mother underwent a crisis which led to a temporary transfer of the minors to the father’s custody. This “temporary” transfer was very difficult to reverse into the previous arrangements, and only after an appeal and another lawsuit the firm was able to revert the visitation arrangement into it’s pre-arrangement form. At the same time, the father filed an additional child support lawsuit and the proceedings are yet to be concluded.

Representation of two brothers against the third brother in proceedings for dividing the estate of their deceased partners, which included mainly a valuable real estate property in Shuk HaCarmel – in the framework of these proceedings, Adv. Michael Weiss was appointed by the court as a co-liquidator for selling this property, and the sale transaction encountered complications and reached litigation in the family and district court on the matter of approving the sale. This complication emerged from a third-party bidder, a former client of the firm, who participated in the bid, reconsidered and afterwards reconsidered again. This led to a litigation between the liquidators and the bidder and the contractor who won the property, negotiations on the approval of the sale, proceedings for canceling it and more. Eventually, the bidder’s objection was overruled both in the family and in the district courts. The property was sold to the contractor and a transaction of more than NIS 7 million was completed to the satisfaction of all of the parties.