About

Shira Toledano is an attorney and mediator specializing in family law, with more than two decades of experience representing clients, managing complex cases, facilitating family arrangements, and handling legal proceedings.

The firm focuses on divorce and separation, family disputes and agreements, wills and estates, intergenerational wealth transfer, trusts, prenuptial and financial agreements, gifts and loans, guardianship, and continuing powers of attorney.

Family law extends far beyond the separation of spouses. It touches upon the most sensitive relationships in our lives: between spouses, parents and adult children, siblings, grandparents and grandchildren, and between families, assets, wealth and businesses.

Money within a family is often given out of love and trust. Assets are acquired jointly, parents assist their children, businesses are passed down from one generation to the next, and commitments are made within close family relationships. Precisely because of this, when matters are not properly regulated in advance, a change in family relationships can turn informal family understanding into legal questions requiring resolution.

Proper legal planning in advance makes it possible to define rights, obligations and intentions through prenuptial and financial agreements, gift and loan agreements, wills, trusts, and other mechanisms designed to preserve and manage family assets and wealth.

When a dispute has already arisen, a different approach is required. The firm represents clients in litigation proceedings before courts and religious tribunals, based on the understanding that legal proceedings do not constitute a failure to reach an agreement, but rather a professional tool intended to achieve a resolution when an agreed arrangement is no longer possible.

Adv. Toledano developed the “Psycho-Legal” approach, which is based on the ability to distinguish between the story, the emotions and the legal issues; identify the client's underlying needs and the legal picture; and select the course of action that will best advance the client toward the desired outcome. Emotions are an inseparable part of family disputes, but they should not dictate legal decisions.

The goal is neither to manage a dispute for years nor to avoid legal proceedings at all costs.

The goal is resolution.

The path is determined by what is required — agreement when possible, and adjudication when necessary.

Adv. Shira Toledano – Life After the Resolution.