Yael Gil, Law Office

Yael Gil, Law Office was founded in 1997 and boasts a record of over 27 years of successes and achievements for its clients, while upholding its values: professionalism, combining broad legal and profound psychological knowledge, determination in reaching achievements for the clients, integrity, humanity, compassion, sensitivity to the needs of clients in crises, high availability, complete discretion, and community involvement. In addition, Adv. Gil has also been engaged for many years in social contribution to the community, on the subject of gender equality. The firm handles complex family-related and personal status cases, before all tribunals and boasts high success rates. The firm practices complex property lawsuits, resources balancing, division of property, breaking up partnerships, splitting companies and businesses, prevention of concealment of assets, personal and business reputation divorce, custody and parental responsibility, joint custody, visitation rights and equal parental responsibilities including cases involving babies, parental alienation prevention, reversing parental alienation, handling false claims, child support, alimony, wills, relocation and immigration in Israel, pets custody, claims concerning gifts, common-law marriages-reputed spouse divorce claims, marital harmony claims, Ketubah claims, divorce damages, grandparents’ rights,prenuptial agreements, divorce agreements, mediation, accompany clients in yehidat hasiua , complex negotiations towards divorce and financial agreements, joint parenting, mediation and more.

Adv. Yael Gil

Adv. Yael Gil has an LL.B. from Tel Aviv University. In addition to her legal studies, she also graduated with honors with a B.A. from the Psychology Faculty of TAU. Adv. Gil combines the diverse knowledge she gained in psychology and law. This enables the firm to offer, as part of its legal representation, unique guidance concerning the appearances in front of welfare authorities and psychology experts. In light of her knowledge in both fields, Adv. Gil is highly capable to perform cross-examinations of witnesses from the social work, psychology, and psychiatry fields, as well as other disciplines (actuaries, economists, private investigators, etc.).
The firm represents its clients before all courts and jurisdictions. The firm won several groundbreaking precedents, which have been quoted across numerous rulings, including verdicts made against prenuptial agreements in property cases, verdicts regarding the interpretation of contracts, verdicts that prevent the division of external property, verdicts for quick dissolution of partnership in real estate, judgments for the division of property according to Section 8 of the Property Relations Law, rulings on social rights in complex cases, winning in spouse and child alimony appeals, the first ruling in favor of a joint custody in Israel which was accepted against the opinion of a welfare review and in contrast to the “tender years doctrine”, verdicts that determined joint parental responsibility, including for babies, including against the recommendations of welfare and psychologists; verdicts that reduced child support fees, verdicts that determined low alimony fees, including a case involving a 4.5 year old child (before ruling 919/15), verdicts for zero alimony, approval of requests for outright dismissal in a will case as well as in an inheritance and alimony case; verdicts that prevented an immigration of children in israel; verdicts that prevent parental alienation; verdict on the enforcement of shared parenting agreements, verdict on extended visitation periods in complex situations where the parents live far apart, verdict concerning dogs and pets custody. Only some of the judgments were published in the legal databases (Nevo, Takdin, etc.), and some of them were not published due to the confidentiality, the parties’ objections and more.
Adv. Yael Gil was ranked as one of Israel’s leading attorneys. In addition, the firm received certificate of appreciation for its achievements in business leadership and excellence from 2016 onwards.
Adv. Yael Gil also worked in the framework of the Israel Bar’s Family Law Legislation Committee as well as in the Knesset, and led a public struggle for social change and gender equality since 2003. Adv. Gil works for the benefit of victims of domestic violence.
Adv. Gil has been organizing numerous conventions and giving lectures. Leading experts, alongside judges and senior academic researchers also lecture in these conventions, on topics of property, child support, custody, shared parenting, violence against children and more. Over the years she published many dozens of visionary articles in various family law topics in numerous opinion columns including in Ynet, Ma’ariv, the business and legal sections of Globes, TheMarker and Calcalist, and various legal websites, on topics such as: division of properties and specific housing sharing, division of property according to Section 8 of the Property Relations Law, divorce and legislation encourage wars Against the good of the family in light of game theory, the prevalent discrimination in child support, equal and joint partnering, pension division, balancing of resources, nuptial agreements and many more. Most of the articles and links to them can be found on the Dun’s 100 website and on Adv. Gil legal website: www.yaelgil.co.il
Adv. Yael Gil also managed numerous legal forums over the years, including Cafe TheMarker’s Lawyers community. Adv. Yael Gil also has a background and extensive knowledge in real-estate and civil-commercial issues, which provide her with a very broad perspective, on the firm’s practice area from the assets, economic and child support aspects.

Adv. Or Finkelstein

Adv. Finkelstein has an LL.B. from Tel Aviv University (2011). She has been working in the firm since her pre-internship and internship. In the past 12.5 years she has been working as a family and divorce law attorney in the firm of Adv. Yael Gil. She appears before all of the courts and represents the firm’s clients intelligently and professionally, with an uncompromising strive for optimal results in favor of the client. She appears in the courts and conducts complex counter investigations, she works untiringly in order to settle the cases with fair agreements or fair rulings for the clients. Her high legal and analytical skills, as well as her knowledge and creative view, contribute enormously to the firm. Adv. Finklestein is also certified to draw up lasting power of attorney documents from the Ministry of Justice, the Public Guardian and Official Receiver. Adv. Or Finkelstein graduated with honors from the Mathematical-Physical-French course at the Rishon Lezion Gymnasia HaRealit, she was a psychotechnical diagnostician in the IDF.

Prioritizing Fair Agreements

Advocates Yael Gil and Or Finkelstein believe that people are better off if they reach fair agreements and that is in their best interests to conclude their marriages peacefully rather than through years of legal struggles. However, it is obvious that one mustn’t reach agreement regardless of the cost, as the latter might be very high. In case that a client doesn’t reach an agreement prior to or during the management of the case, the firm fights intelligently, creatively, and determinedly, until its clients win just rulings in all of the courts.
The firm uses creative strategic, legal and psychological methods in order to maximize its clients’ rights and lead them to optimal results, as to enable them to start a new chapter in their lives with peace of mind and with a sense of success and confidence in the future.