Each side pays its own lawyer while the case runs. At the end, the court decides costs, and it customarily orders the unsuccessful party to pay the successful one. The…

The estate case is heading to family court to litigate the objection. Once someone files an objection to a will in Israel, the Registrar for Matters of Succession cannot issue…

Somewhere in a file at the Guardian General of Israel in the Ministry of Justice in Jerusalem, there is a parcel of land and rights registered to a deceased who…

If you have opened your mailbox to find a letter from an office in Israel identifying itself as the Administrator General, the Guardian General, or the General Custodian – usually…

Migdal is one of the most quietly significant places on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, a small town of roughly 2,000 residents, founded in 1910, sitting on…

Not every heir wants their inheritance. That statement may surprise you, but in our firm’s two decades of handling Israeli probate and succession matters, we have seen it many times….

We receive a version of this phone call at least once a month. An adult child — usually living in Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, or London — calls to...

When families discover that a grandparent or great-grandparent owned property in Israel — land purchased in the 1920s, a home in Tel Aviv that has sat unclaimed for half a...

You Recovered Unclaimed Land in Israel, but You Share It with Strangers. Now What? If you are in the process of recovering unclaimed land in Israel — or considering whether...

$124 Million in JCT Shares Remain Unclaimed in Israel If you recently discovered that a grandparent or great-grandparent purchased shares in the Jewish Colonial Trust (JCT), you are not alone....