The move sequenced
Departure steps ordered so each legal consequence lands when intended — sequence is the difference between a clean break and a contested one.
Relocation & centre-of-life strategy
Moving countries is a legal event, not just a logistical one.
Relocation legal strategy from Aun & Co.: centre-of-life planning, exposure sequencing and documentation for individuals and families leaving or entering Israel.
In law, you do not simply move — your centre of life moves, and a series of consequences follows it: tax residence tests that read where your home, family and economic interests actually sit; jurisdiction over your affairs; the fate of pending obligations and frictions left behind. Relocation strategy is the discipline of sequencing the move so the legal facts match the intended outcome: what is closed before departure, what is restructured, what the record must show, and when each step lands.
The work spans
- Centre-of-life analysis: what the legal tests will actually see
- Departure sequencing: what to close, assign or restructure first
- Pending-dispute strategy: resolve, park or carry each friction
- The documentary record: evidencing the move as it happens
- Coordination with tax and destination-country advisers
- You are relocating and each adviser handles one fragment of a move that is legally one event.
- Open disputes or obligations in Israel would follow you abroad if left unmanaged.
- Your intended residence outcome depends on facts a future authority will one day audit.
- The family, the business and the assets are moving on different timelines and no one owns the sequence.
The firm starts from how a future examiner — a tax authority, a court, an adversary — would reconstruct your move from the paper: leases, school registrations, board seats, bank patterns, days counted. The plan is then built backwards from that reconstruction: obligations closed in the right order, structures assigned before departure rather than after, and a contemporaneous file assembled proving the centre of life shifted when and as claimed. Frictions left open are triaged deliberately: settled cheaply now, or carried with eyes open.
04 · What you get
A record built in real time
The centre-of-life file assembled as the move happens, not reconstructed years later under examination.
Nothing left ticking
Every open obligation and friction in Israel triaged before departure — resolved, restructured, or carried as a documented decision.
A typical engagement: a family relocating abroad with a business remaining in Israel. The firm triages the open frictions, restructures the owner's role so management passes cleanly, sequences the departure against the residence tests, and leaves a documentary file that answers the audit before it is asked.
Described in abbreviated, anonymised form to preserve client confidentiality.
What determines where my centre of life is legally?
The pattern of objective facts: where your permanent home, family, economic interests and routine actually sit, alongside presence-day counts. Authorities and courts weigh the whole picture — which is why the record you build during the move matters more than declarations made after it.
What happens to my Israeli legal obligations when I relocate?
They do not lapse with departure — contracts, guarantees, proceedings and tax positions continue, and Israeli courts generally retain their reach over them. Each should be closed, restructured or consciously carried before the move; the ones forgotten are the ones that follow you.
When should relocation legal planning begin?
Six to twelve months before the intended move, ideally — enough runway to sequence closures, restructure holdings and let the documentary record accumulate naturally. Compressed timelines can work; they simply trade planning room for risk.