Ilya Prokopets

Ilya Prokopets is a partner at Jaburg Wilk in Phoenix, Arizona. He represents high-net-worth individuals and business owners in divorce and other family law matters that turn on complex financial and child-related issues.

His practice focuses on:

• Dividing closely held businesses, professional practices, and family enterprises, including business valuation disputes and the separate vs. community characterization of ownership interests
• Real estate: investment portfolios, commercial property, and the effect of commingling, corporate structuring, refinancing, and appreciation on community and separate real property
• Characterizing and tracing community and separate property, including trusts, equity compensation, deferred compensation, and retirement assets
• Divorce proceedings involving tax issues
• Divorces involving high-profile individuals and public figures with privacy and reputation concerns, including confidentiality and discreet settlement strategies
• Prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, including drafting them and enforcing or challenging them in a dissolution
• Spousal maintenance, child support, and legal decision-making and parenting time where income derives from self-employment and is variable
• Complex post-decree disputes, mediation, and arbitration

Ilya works with forensic accountants, business valuation experts, tax advisors, trust experts, and real estate appraisers to understand the issues and build the financial record early.  He prefers to resolve cases through negotiation, mediation, or arbitration when that serves the client.  Sometimes, however, aggressive action and litigation is necessary to achieve a client’s goals and objectives.

He began his career in New York City handling complex commercial and real estate litigation. That background shapes how he examines financial records, valuations, and transactions in family court.

Ilya has been named a Southwest Super Lawyers “Rising Star” (2023–2026), listed in Best Lawyers: “Ones to Watch in America” (2025–2027), and named a Phoenix Magazine Top Lawyer in Family Law (2025).