Nili Schatz, Adv.

Nily Shatz Law Office is a boutique law firm practicing across the broad spectrum of family law, including divorce agreements, child custody, child support, parental alienation, prenuptial and marital property agreements, professional mediation, wills, probate and inheritance orders, estate agreements, cohabitation and common-law spouse agreements, enduring powers of attorney, continuity claims, and more. In addition, the firm is involved, although to a lesser extent, in defamation cases concerning journalists and public figures.
Adv. Nily Shatz, the firm’s founder and owner, has approximately 25 years of professional experience and a proven track record of successfully managing numerous complex cases.

Boutique Service from a Highly Experienced Attorney

The firm’s clients benefit from a boutique service model characterized by dedicated guidance and counsel from a highly experienced legal professional with extensive expertise in representing clients before Family Courts, Rabbinical Courts, and the Supreme Court of Israel. Alongside her specialization in family law, Adv. Shatz possesses legal knowledge and experience in related fields, including domestic violence, real estate, taxation, property law, labor law, and more.
When required, the firm works alongside a network of leading professionals, including private investigators, social workers, psychologists, economists, certified public accountants, actuaries, and other experts.

Extensive Public Activity

Adv. Shatz is the mother of three children. Beyond her legal practice, she is a sought-after lecturer in the field of family law and regularly delivers lectures through the Israel Bar Association. She also hosts a regular broadcasting segment at the Israel Bar Association’s studio and organizes conferences and professional seminars in the field.

In addition, she serves as Chair of the Rabbinical Courts Committee of the Central District Bar Association, Chair of SHIL (Citizen Advice Service) in Modi’in, legal advisor to the city’s volunteer organizations, and a board member of ILAN. More than 100 volunteer organizations operate in the city of Modi’in. Recently, Adv. Shatz received a Certificate of Excellence from Mayor and Chairman of the Federation of Local Authorities in Israel, Mr. Haim Bibas, in recognition of her volunteer work in the city.
Adv. Shatz holds an LL.B. from the University of East London, England, and an LL.M. from Ono Academic College. She completed her legal internship at the Jerusalem District Office of the State Attorney’s Office.

Volunteering as a Way of Life

For Shatz, volunteering is a way of life. Upon moving to Modiin, she sought to join SHIL (Citizen Advice Service) in order to continue her volunteer work and is currently the Chair of SHIL in the city. She describes being deeply moved by every opportunity to assist residents.

As part of her volunteer activity, she has provided assistance in a range of cases, including helping a woman and her children leave a strict religious group in Kiryat Sefer.

She also provided pro bono legal support to a Holocaust survivor — together with SHIL director Ronit Steigman — who was struggling with estate-related bureaucracy following her late husband’s death, offering full legal assistance free of charge.

In another case, she provided legal guidance to a resident who lost money to a contractor who disappeared without completing promised kitchen renovations. Following her guidance on strategic legal steps, the funds were recovered.

In a housing hazard case, she intervened on behalf of a couple who rented an apartment with mold that harmed their health, successfully persuading the landlord to remedy the issue.

Continuation Claims Following Sperm Retrieval from Fallen IDF Soldiers

Since October 7th, Adv. Shatz has been engaged in what she describes as a “life project” handling continuation claims involving sperm retrieval from soldiers who fell in the war.

She currently manages four such cases, including the case concerning Iris Chaim’s son, Yotam Chaim z”l, who was abducted and mistakenly killed in Gaza. The court has recently issued a precedent-setting ruling approving the use of his sperm for the purpose of creating continuity for his legacy.

Selected Cases

Alimony claim by father – Representation of a father who filed a child support claim before the Family Court. The mother argued that because fathers are obligated to pay child support, the father could not bring such a claim himself, and that he was attempting to ensure that the matter would not be heard in the Rabbinical Court. The court dismissed the motion to strike the claim, holding that it lacked any legal basis, emphasizing that the right to seek child support on behalf of minors is not reserved exclusively for mothers, and that the father’s filing did not constitute an abuse of legal proceedings.

Parental alienation – Representation in a tort claim for NIS 500,000 on behalf of a mother who had effectively lost her son approximately four years earlier due to severe incitement by the father.

Disability case – An unusual case in which a father sought a ruling that his daughter’s mobility benefits, associated with a 280% disability rating, should be exercised for the daughter’s benefit rather than allowing the mother to make personal use of the disabled-access vehicle.

Wiretapping – Representation in a complex divorce case involving allegations of unlawful wiretapping. It was determined that the mother could not be found to have carried out illegal wiretapping, as the device in question was a family device used by the household. Through it, the father chose to conduct conversations with his own father while allegedly plotting to deprive his wife of family assets.

Later-Dated Will – Representation in a multimillion-shekel inheritance dispute involving a property in a highly desirable location and substantial sums held in bank accounts. The firm filed an objection to a will submitted to the Registrar of Inheritance Affairs because the client possessed a handwritten will of the deceased that was executed at a later date.

Retroactive alimony refund – Representation in a child support proceeding in which the firm’s client, a father, received a retroactive reimbursement of NIS 65,000 resulting from a reduction in child support payments.

Issuance of a Passport for a Minor – The firm obtained a precedent-setting judgment establishing that the issuance of a passport for a minor cannot be conditioned upon any other legal proceeding. The court further ruled that if the father refuses to sign the application, the Ministry of the Interior may issue the passport without his signature.