Sklarz-Tiroche, Law Firm & Mediation

Sklarz-Tiroche, Law Office and Mediators is a leading well-known family and inheritance law firm, specializing in complex divorce cases, estate cases and legal personal status issues. The firm’s team has more than a decade of experience in managing divorce cases, common-law spouses, child support payments, alimony, custody and time allocation, property division, stock-options, shares and digital coins distribution, drafting of wills, objections to wills, managing of estates, legatee agreements, joint-parenting agreements, surrogacy, prenuptial agreements and lasting power of an attorney.
The firm’s team excels in legal litigation and faithfully represents its clients in the family and Rabbinical courts. The firm boasts very high success rates and precedential rulings that transformed Israel’s family law practice. The firm represents leading figures in the Israeli economy, as well as many celebrities among the firm’s satisfied clients.

Adv. Liat Sklarz-Horowitz

Adv. Liat Sklarz-Horowitz holds a B.A. in Law and Governance from the IDC Herzliya, specializing in International Relations, and an LL.M. from Bar-Ilan University with emphasis on family mediation.
She founded the firm in 2014 after working for 8 years in one of Israel’s largest family law firms. Alongside her day-to-day legal practice, Adv. Sklarz-Horowitz serves as vice-president of the committee on family affairs in the Israeli Bar, lectures before young lawyers on family law, participate in professional conferences, publishes professional articles, and is therefore considered a sought-after interviewee by assorted media outlets.

Adv. Dana Tiroche Eliyahu

Adv. Tiroche Eliyahu joined the firm as a partner in 2019, has an LL.B. and admitted to the Bar since 2012. She initially specialized in torts and companies’ liquidations and litigation, and after a few years transitioned to family law and accumulated several years of experience in a leading firm in this area. Her proved experience in adjacent legal fields and her ability to recall information in real time, provides the firm’s clients with a significant advantage in the management of divorce cases in general and in particularly. Adv. Tiroche Eliyahu is a certified mediator, lectures at conventions and extended courses, and publishes professional articles in the field.

Unique Expertise

The firm’s team specialize in property matters including division of shares, stock options and digital coins. Matured and unmatured stock-options, options agreements, the basis of granting them and the meaning or maturing options, division in kind, etc.
The firm specialize in complex inheritance cases, will’s objections, legal questions in subjects of heir after heir, heir instead of heir, will’s dispossession, will’s limitations, heirs’ agreements, etc.
Adv. Sklarz-Horowitz and Adv. Tiroche Eliyahu are certified mediators, who hold considerable knowledge and experience in mediation proceedings and conflict resolution in complex family issues. The mediation process is held with both mediators, and for those who wishes to solve the conflict under the same roof-top in ways of peace. The firm held hundreds of mediations processes in divorce and inheritance matters so far, while making sure the agreements will prevent conflicts in the future as much as possible and addressing courts.
Each case the firm handle is accompanied by a team of specialists including first-row accountants, psychologists, private social worker and couples’ therapist that help the client in the legal conflict and provide a solid basis to the legal processes.

The Key to Success – the correct initial actions and the attention to details

“Knowledge is Power”, sayeth the adage, the firm champions being “First to Act”-We believe that carrying out the right initial steps in every case forms the key to success for our clients, and therefore, the firm takes diligent care in the selection and execution of these actions, notably, obtaining precise orders from the courts, filing the proper discovery motions, and various other legal procedures. This is done to reach the court, with a significant advantage. Behind the scenes, the firm operates private investigators, as well as accountants specifically tasked with carrying out financial inquiries, which are always at the firm’s disposal. In addition, the firm constantly remains abreast and deepens its proficiency in new family law rulings in Israel and abroad.

The Clients First

The firm believes that a family lawyer acts not just a legal advisor on the part of this client, but also as a confidant, and a ready ear and support, from the beginning of the crisis and until they emerge strengthened from it. Hence, the great advantage of the firm comes from intermeshing excellent professional capabilities with 24/7 availability to the client and sensitive communicability. We believe that as service providers the client comes first. Considering the emotional state that accompanies complex divorce proceedings, particularly those involving children, the firm works with child psychologists and parenting experts in order to limit the damage to the spouses’ children, and in order to prevent consequences, such as parental alienation, while crafting detailed agreements – which take into account the complex realities found in the field.

Court and Rabbinical Tribunal Litigation

The firm’s team has considerable experience in representation before various court instances, including Family Courts, district courts and the Supreme Court. This includes the Rabbinical courts. Its vast experience in litigation affords a significant advantage in the various tribunals.

Advising Law Firms

The firm provides external consultancy in the field of family law for law firms dealing with land, corporate, equity, taxation and other fields of law. The firm works in tandem with these entities in complex cases involving financial, capital or real-estate related issues.

Notable Achievements

The firm has contributed a great deal to numerous precedents concerning family law in Israel and has been responsible to instructive and novel rulings concerning alimonies, jurisdictional matters, joint custody, parental alienation, guardianship, valuations, the judicial award of parental rights, recognition of the value of Ktuba for women, objections and abrogation of wills, and more. The firm has rich experience in matters concerning estates and inheritances overseas.