Judith Meisels Law Offices is a leading law firm in the field of family and estate law. In addition to providing legal services, the firm is responsible for a number of notable legal precedents and rules, as well as those of the Supreme Court.
Judith Meisels, who has a master’s degree with honors in law and has been a lawyer since 1998, founded the firm in 2007. Adv. Meisels brings with her over twenty years of experience in the field of family and inheritance law and has been involved in various legislative proceedings for quite a few years. In addition, she lectures at the academy and has held various public positions.
Five experienced and professional lawyers work for the firm. The service is tailored to the customer’s needs and each of the lawyers demonstrates her abilities from the very first encounter. Due to the firm’s values which include fairness, integrity, and determination, all clients receive individualized solutions and an unparalleled level of accuracy and responsiveness.
Among the firm’s clients are women of means, businessmen, freelancers, and employees at a variety of levels, as well as foreign nationals and residents.

Office services
In addition to its legal services, Judith Meisels Law Offices also assists with matters such as division of career assets and reputation, balancing shares in companies registered in the name of one spouse, dissolution of partnership in family companies, and the administration of various property disputes, including trusts both in Israel and abroad, handling cases of property smuggled by one spouse.
The firm provides these and other legal services based on the determination of a preliminary legal strategy, which can be used to guide the process for the client to ensure that all rights are exhausted and further harm is prevented. In addition, the firm also specializes in cases of child abduction under the Hague Convention, international property disputes, divorces between citizens of different countries, international custody, international family disputes, determining parenting due to surrogacy proceedings taking place abroad, and much more.

About

Adv. Judith Meisels

Adv. Judith Meisels studied law at Tel Aviv University, she holds an LL.M., magna cum laude, and is a certified attorney since 1998. Twenty years in the field of Family and Estate Law and running her own legal practice for the past decade, have granted Adv. Meisels extensive experience and rich legal knowledge in all family-related fields. Adv. Meisels is involved in legislative proceedings. She is also a professor of law, teaching the Family Law course in the College of Management’s Law Department and has served in a wide variety of public positions.
In addition, Adv. Meisels gives lectures on Family and Estate Law matters at various institutions including Tel Aviv University, Bar Ilan University, The Bar Association and as part of various conventions. Adv. Meisels is also a regular columnist, writing on Family and Estate Law topics for one of Israel’s leading newspapers, and appears in the written press and on television as an expert on various subjects in her field of expertise. Many of Adv. Meisels’ presidents received attention, and some are studied in various educational facilities. She has also published articles in law reviews and legal journals.
Adv. Meisels is a member of the Academic Inter-University Forum for Family Law, the Israel Bar Association’s Family Law Forum which oversees the field of Family Law in Israel. She served as Vice Chairperson of the Israel Bar Association’s LGBT Committee, and a member of the Israel Bar Association Women Empowerment Committee, as well as the sub-committee established to formalize an amendment to the Legal Competence and Guardianship law. Between the years 1998-and 2000 Adv. Meisels served as a senior legal counselor in the Claims Resolution Tribunal in Zurich for International Arbitration with respect to the dormant Swiss bank accounts.
Clientele Profile

The Judith Meisels Law Firm is meticulous in maintaining its clients’ confidentiality and therefore their names will not be listed. The firm’s clientele includes affluent Israeli businessmen and women, high-profile Israeli figures various private clients, and foreign citizens.

The Judith Meisels Law Firm also engages in pro bono representation through “Halev Project” – The Association to Combat Poverty and the “Schar Mitzvah” program by the Israel Bar Association.
Prominent Cases and Selected Precedents
Cases handled by the firm have often been at the center of Israeli national attention
Among the prominent cases handled by the Meisels firm that has won media attention is the legal precedent set by the Supreme Court with respect to mutual wills. The firm was also credited with a Supreme Court ruling, given by an extended quorum of seven justices, pertaining to the rights of two fathers to full legal parenthood, as well as with precedential rulings regarding reputed spouses, complex property disputes, alimony, custody, and the first divorce of a same-sex marriage in Israel, a ruling which received wide national and international media coverage.
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