Dorit Arbel - Office of Women Lawyers and Mediation

Attorney Dorit Arbel specializes in all areas of personal status and family law.

She represents clients in family courts, rabbinical courts, and appellate courts.

Attorney Arbel holds three academic degrees: a B.A. in Humanities (Tel Aviv University), a B.Ed. in Education (Seminar Hakibbutzim), and an LL.B. in Law, specializing in Human Rights. She graduated with honors from the Family Violence Prevention Clinic under the guidance of Judge Rivka Makayes (The College of Law and Business in Ramat Gan).

Attorney Arbel is certified in a method called 'Collaborative Divorce' by Bar Ilan University.

Not every approach to a family lawyer necessitates or results in legal proceedings. If legal proceedings are initiated, whether proactively or not, not every proceeding is dragged out to exhaustion, wasting more resources of time, emotion, and money.

Attorney Arbel is known for her ability to reach mutual agreements and compromises and for her skills in cultural and fair negotiation, considering and examining all circumstances both in the short and long term.

When consultation is sought early and not at the last minute, matters can be examined calmly, planned in advance, guided, and provided with current information regarding rights, probabilities, and the current legal status, including during the process according to the Law for the Arrangement of Family Dispute Resolution and guidance throughout.

The office presents its clients with rights and a variety of options for examining the situation and its implications in general, even if a final decision has not yet been made and things are still unclear. Accurate advice can be given on what to do, what to avoid, how to prepare, conduct, and generally advance desires, needs, and wishes towards better days.

Preparation of all types of agreements:

• Types of wills
• Financial agreements
• Shared parenting
• Common-law partnerships
• Property separation and others

Handling all issues related to family law:

• Divorce
• Reconciliation
• Refusal to grant a divorce
• Agunot
• Ketubah
• Custody arrangements
• Education
• Relocation
• Immigration
• Child abduction
• Guardianship
• Relationships with grandparents
• Alimony
• Property division and economic issues in general
• Domestic violence
• Determination of paternity or maternity, parenting orders
• Same-sex families and common-law partners
• Sperm insemination of a person who passed away prematurely
• Inheritance disputes and more.

Our office is committed to community involvement, volunteering, giving, rehabilitation, providing assistance, and regularly donates time and income to organizations that support women and children at risk. All clients of the office indirectly take part in this giving.

*Consultation meeting involves a fee.

Additional information, court rulings, opinions, recommendations, and thanks can be found on the office's website.