Joseph, you misquoted the CI. He is talking about a case where they ordered him to take an oath to divorce her and then beat him in order to force him to keep his oath. Even there the CI is uncertain if the gett is pasul.
DY, the NY law only requires judges to take into consideration barriers to remarriage when dividing marital assets. Even has First Amendment questions and also creates questions of ?? ????? as the secular court is, in fact, compelling the gett. See “The Plight of the Agunah: a Study in Halacha,
Contract, and the First Amendment” in the Maryland Law Review (on-line).