ABA: If the secular court imposes any penalty not specifically authorized by the beis din then in fact it causes a get me’usa. It is insufficient that the beis din only authorize he be penalized but it must specifically authorize the extent of the penalty. If the secular court imposes something in excess of beis din’s mandate, it causes a get me’usa. Also, beis din cannot authorize a penalty in every case where the husband declines to give a Get. They can only do so in cases where he has a halachic obligation to give it, he refuses and halacha permits coercion. As a general rule in halacha, a husband doesn’t have an obligation to give a Get simply because his wife wants one. Examples of the rare exceptions where beis din is permitted to order him to give a Get even if he is unwilling to, are cases of his being physically abusive that’s been proven in beis din and unchanged or where he has a physical health deformity.
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