Advocate Irit Rosenblum was the first to articulate a right to biological parenthood and paved the legal road to exercising the right to grandparenthood through Biological Wills.
Seniors turn to New Family for assistance in legal issues surrounding new relationships they enter later in life, in getting survivor’s benefits when spouses die, in property and inheritance issues, in preparing and executing wills, in getting social security payments and senior citizen entitlements, and in maintaining relationships with grandchildren in cases of estrangement.
In January 2010, New Family launched an information hotline for grandparents that provides legal information on the rights of grandparents who can’t see their grandchildren. Separation from grandchildren may follow their children’s divorce from the grandchildren’s other parent, by the death of their child, the grandchild’s parent, by relocation, or a family dispute. The hotline can be reached at 03 566 0504, Sunday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Our attorneys give estranged grandparents legal advice on their rights and obligations vis a vis their grandchildren. Dozens of grandparents have been assisted in beginning the process of reconciling differences with their family members and in appropriate cases, are assisted in legal proceedings to gain visitation rights.
Legislative Proposal: Minors Right to Contact with Relatives Law: New Family drafted and promotes a law in defense of grandparent’s rights in partnership with Knesset members from across the political spectrum. The rationale behind the law is the growing need to ensure the rights of children to know their relatives and of grandparents to know their grandchildren. Today in Israel, there are 300,000 grandparents who are cut off from their grandchildren… ‘Israeli law should be consistent with the reality of increasing life expectancy…The law must accommodate the changed reality where medical developments lengthened lives.’ says Irit Rosenblum. The proposed law passed a preliminary reading and is on its way to becoming law.
As reproductive technologies become more sophisticated, Biological Wills could offer a new paradigm in family. Biological Wills offers bereaved parents the ability to have a genetic grandchild by carrying out the will of their deceased son and donating his sperm to a woman who wishes to have a child without a male partner. Biological Wills offers single women and lesbian couples an alternative to anonymous sperm donation by receiving sperm from a known donor to form an extended family with the father’s kin.
As the only organization in the world drafting and storing biological wills at our Biological Will Bank©®, New Family has helped terminally ill people, bereaved parents, soldiers, and widows whose spouses died unexpectedly before their IVF treatments could be completed fulfill their biological legacy.
When a court of law determines that it was the wish of the deceased to father a child even in the event of his death, Biological Wills serve the interest of all involved parties. Biological Wills allow the deceased the ability to fulfill his biological legacy in the face of tragedy. Biological Wills allow the intended mother to know the identity of her child’s father and to form an extended family for her child is she wishes. Biological Wills allow the bereaved parents the ability to continue their family line. Like a child born in any other circumstances, the child is the sole responsibility of the child’s mother and the grandparent’s have no legal rights or obligations towards the child.
For the first time, in the Biological Will case of Ohad Ben Yaakov, the Legal Advisor to the Government gave legal weight to the parents of deceased and acknowledges their right to have a biological grandchild, following petition by Advocate Irit Rosenblum to allow the Ben Yaakov family to donate their son’s sperm if proved in court that it was his desire to do so.
Grandparents Rights
Advocate Irit Rosenblum was the first to articulate a right to biological parenthood and paved the legal road to exercising the right to grandparenthood through Biological Wills.
Seniors turn to New Family for assistance in legal issues surrounding new relationships they enter later in life, in getting survivor’s benefits when spouses die, in property and inheritance issues, in preparing and executing wills, in getting social security payments and senior citizen entitlements, and in maintaining relationships with grandchildren in cases of estrangement.
In January 2010, New Family launched an information hotline for grandparents that provides legal information on the rights of grandparents who can’t see their grandchildren. Separation from grandchildren may follow their children’s divorce from the grandchildren’s other parent, by the death of their child, the grandchild’s parent, by relocation, or a family dispute. The hotline can be reached at 03 566 0504, Sunday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Our attorneys give estranged grandparents legal advice on their rights and obligations vis a vis their grandchildren. Dozens of grandparents have been assisted in beginning the process of reconciling differences with their family members and in appropriate cases, are assisted in legal proceedings to gain visitation rights.
Legislative Proposal: Minors Right to Contact with Relatives Law: New Family drafted and promotes a law in defense of grandparent’s rights in partnership with Knesset members from across the political spectrum. The rationale behind the law is the growing need to ensure the rights of children to know their relatives and of grandparents to know their grandchildren. Today in Israel, there are 300,000 grandparents who are cut off from their grandchildren… ‘Israeli law should be consistent with the reality of increasing life expectancy…The law must accommodate the changed reality where medical developments lengthened lives.’ says Irit Rosenblum. The proposed law passed a preliminary reading and is on its way to becoming law.
As reproductive technologies become more sophisticated, Biological Wills could offer a new paradigm in family. Biological Wills offers bereaved parents the ability to have a genetic grandchild by carrying out the will of their deceased son and donating his sperm to a woman who wishes to have a child without a male partner. Biological Wills offers single women and lesbian couples an alternative to anonymous sperm donation by receiving sperm from a known donor to form an extended family with the father’s kin.
As the only organization in the world drafting and storing biological wills at our Biological Will Bank©®, New Family has helped terminally ill people, bereaved parents, soldiers, and widows whose spouses died unexpectedly before their IVF treatments could be completed fulfill their biological legacy.
When a court of law determines that it was the wish of the deceased to father a child even in the event of his death, Biological Wills serve the interest of all involved parties. Biological Wills allow the deceased the ability to fulfill his biological legacy in the face of tragedy. Biological Wills allow the intended mother to know the identity of her child’s father and to form an extended family for her child is she wishes. Biological Wills allow the bereaved parents the ability to continue their family line. Like a child born in any other circumstances, the child is the sole responsibility of the child’s mother and the grandparent’s have no legal rights or obligations towards the child.
For the first time, in the Biological Will case of Ohad Ben Yaakov, the Legal Advisor to the Government gave legal weight to the parents of deceased and acknowledges their right to have a biological grandchild, following petition by Advocate Irit Rosenblum to allow the Ben Yaakov family to donate their son’s sperm if proved in court that it was his desire to do so.