Inheritances and Estates

The professional team specializing in inheritances and estates at Ben Ari Fish, Law Firm, provides diverse legal services in the areas of inheritance, family wealth planning and management, and legal capacity.

The team has decades of long-standing experience representing private clients in these legal areas, as well as higher education institutions and other non-profit organization which from time to time receive donations as beneficiaries under a will, and accordingly require legal counseling and representation.

The professional team, led by Adv. Heli Dankner, is consistently listed among the leading firms in Israel ranked in the national rankings, Dun’s 100 and BDi Code, in the area of personal status and family wealth management.

The professional team has extensive experience in the areas of inheritance, family wealth management and legal capacity. The team’s senior-level attorneys frequently deliver lectures on inheritance and legal capacity to the legal community within the framework of the Israel Bar Association’s continuing education programs.

The unique character of the firm, which specializes in providing legal services in many and diverse fields of law, combined with the joint work of the firm’s various departments, enable the delivery of comprehensive and professional response to the diverse needs of the firm’s clients in the area of inheritance and legal capacity, which often also includes commercial aspects, real estate law issues, civil litigation etc..

The team specializes in legal representation in litigation proceedings in the area of inheritance, including proceedings to oppose will order applications, revocation of will orders, claims regarding the scope of estates, will interpretation, estate distribution and more. In many cases the team’s senior-level attorneys serve as executors of estates.

The team is skilled in drafting wills in complex cases, including special legal mechanisms such as trusts, balancing mechanisms, and ensuring the rights of minors and persons with special needs, as well as wills that include planning the intergenerational transfer of businesses and family wealth management.

The team regularly provides ancillary legal services related to inheritances and estates, such as submitting applications for confirmation of will orders and inheritance orders, applications for the appointment of estate executors, counseling prior to legal disputes, legal opinions with respect to the validity of wills, drafting and revising mutual wills, revising wills in light of the instructions of heir after heir, will interpretation, drafting distribution agreements between heirs, gift transactions, loan agreements between parents and children etc.

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