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About
Adi Chen, Law Firm & Mediation was founded in 2006 by Adv. Adi Chen, and is one of the leading boutique family, inheritance, and international estates law firms. It is ranked as leading firm by Duns 100 and BDI Code.
Adv. Adi Chen has rich experience and great skill in case management and in building a legal strategy that is individually tailored to each of her clients. The extensive academic knowledge combined with her rich experience gives her a great advantage in managing proceedings. Adv. Maintaining the discretion and privacy of its customers.
The firm's clients, which include, among others, prominent and famous figures as well as senior figures in the Israeli economy and abroad, receive personal and supportive treatment during the conflict period, which is characterized by crises and difficult dilemmas, with their personal well-being and the best interests of their children above all.
Practice Areas
The firm offers a wide range of service, from counseling and strategy construction, negotiations and up to legal representation before all of the courts.
International Estates, Wills and Inheritance
The firm handles complex inheritance disputes, inheritance planning and intergenerational transfers. The firm handles, inter alia, drafting wills, defending and contesting wills, challenging non-probate transfers, lawsuits against heirs, estate management and receiverships, survivors pension and more. Adv. Chen’s academic proficiency and vast experience and skill provide her with an advantage in managing such cases, which require proficiency and thorough, uncompromising and analytical work. Adv. Chen’s academic background created close work relations with foreign law experts and scholars. She also provides legal opinions in this field.
Family Law
Adv. Chen has longstanding expertise in every aspect of the strategy, planning and managing of complex and diverse family disputes, from negotiations and drafting of agreements such as nuptial, joint living, parenting, and divorce agreements, representation in mediation or cooperative divorce proceedings, and up representation before all of the courts in complex divorce disputes including international disputes.
Some of which are specified below:
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Common law spouses and joint living agreements, including lawsuits between spouses and lawsuits for recognition of common law marriages;
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Family disputes between spouses who were joined by civil marriage;
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Family disputes between spouses who were joined by civil marriage;
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Marriages and divorces of LGBT couples, including joint parenting agreements and representation in inheritance, property, custody and visitation disputes;
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All types of domestic violence (mental, economic and physical) and threatening harassment;
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Nuptial agreements;
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Sperm theft lawsuits;
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Paternity determination;
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Parental orders following surrogacy procedures abroad;
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Surrogacy agreements;
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Divorces;
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Marital harmony;
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Ktuba claims;
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Property and assets lawsuits, including assets smuggling, shares, stock options, personal and business reputation, family-owned companies and more;
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Married woman alimony, including proving living standards, unreported revenues and economic violence;
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Men/Women civil alimonies for common law/civil marriage spouses and estranged pre-divorced spouses;
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Child support claims including increasing/reducing;
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Property balancing, liquidation and division including handling asset smuggling;
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Child custody and visitation and sleep arrangements, including disputing professional opinions;
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Immigration claims;
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Child abduction claims under the Hague Convention;
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Guardianships: appointments, revoking and replacing guardians;
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Declarations of minors in need;
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Eviction and fair usage fees claims;
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Posthumous fertilization claims;
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Grandparents’ rights;
Lasting power of attorney and expression of will
Adv. Chen is certified to prepare LPAs for appointing attorneys for medical and personal matters including welfare and property matters when donors are no longer able to make decisions for themselves, and expression of will documents for appointing substitute guardians in cases where the guardian is unable to take care of him/herself and others.
Family Mediations and Cooperative Divorces
Adv. Chen is a family mediator and certified to represent in cooperative divorces.
Community Outreach
Adv. Chen takes care to remain involved in the community through volunteering. She is recognized for her intensive work and influence on legislation proceedings, such as the promotion of the Law for Preventing Economic Violence, the entitlement of same-sex couples and single men to surrogacy proceedings, an amendment in the Inheritance Law, guaranteeing the parents-children relationships, an amendment to the Child Adoption Law, posthumous fertilization rights and the right for succession for the parents of casualties, an amendment in the infancy presumption, the Guardianship Law, parental alienation and more.
In 2016, Adv. Chen founded the Family Clinic in the Sha’arei Mada U’Mishpat Academic Center, which she manages and heads, where the students provide pro bono initial legal support to citizens across Israel. In complex cases, the clinic participates in legal battles and manages the proceedings on behalf of the citizen. Furthermore, Adv. Chen volunteers as a mentor for young lawyers at the beginning of their careers and participates in the Israel Bar Association’s pro bono project.
