Family Court

A Haifa Family Court ruled that an injured Israeli man does not have to share his multi-million shekel insurance payout with his ex-partner, distinguishing between funds received during and after their separation.

A Tel Aviv family court ruled to suspend visitation between a divorced father and his teenage sons due to their strong refusal to meet. The judge adopted welfare recommendations, citing that forcing contact could cause further harm.

A Tel Aviv court nullified a 25-million-shekel inheritance left to a hairdresser's son, exposing a severe case of elder financial abuse and romantic manipulation against a childless couple.

An Israeli court rejected a woman's claim to half of her ex-husband's ₪6.25 million moshav estate due to a signed 2009 waiver, awarding her only documented renovation costs.

A Jerusalem family court dismissed a man's claim to his family's agricultural estate, ruling his brother is the capable heir. The court cited lack of farming activity and the brother's superior financial capacity to compensate siblings.

The Tel Aviv Family Court rejected a son's claim that being added to his elderly parents' bank account made him the owner of millions of shekels, ruling the funds belong to the father's estate.

After more than 40 years of marriage, an ultra-Orthodox woman accused her spouse of financial abuse, an affair funded by joint assets, and hiding assets. However, the court rejected her demands.

A mother of an 8-year-old girl was required to pay 150 shekels for every cancellation of a meeting between the child and her father. He sued to raise the amount to 1,000 shekels, but the court ruled: “An extreme and draconian demand.”

A Jerusalem court ruled that a penthouse worth approximately four million shekels, which the husband had hidden, must be included in the property division process despite a prenuptial agreement.

As part of the separation proceedings between the parents, the father requested that their son continue in a secular framework. However, a judge relied on professionals and accepted the request of the religious mother.

The Safed Family Court has ordered a mother to pay 180,000 shekels in damages for parental alienation. The court found that the mother systematically thwarted the children's relationship with their father.

A woman whose relatives were kidnapped argued that the cessation of intimate relations on October 7, 2023, should mark the date for property division. The court ruled that family dissolution is determined by the totality of circumstances, including economic separation, and set the date of rupture to January 2025.