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fruminnj: According to the Shulchan Aruch, Halacha (Jewish Law) is that if the husband gives a Get because he’s required to under New York State law or Israeli law rather than because he wants to, Halacha clearly deems that Get to be what Jewish Law calls a “Get Me’usa” (an “invalid Get”) and it isn’t worth the parchment it’s written on. It is halachicly exactly as if he didn’t give any Get at all and the wife remains an eishes ish (a married woman) in the eyes of Jewish Law.
The Torah directly and Halacha clearly state that in order for a Get to be valid it must be given completely and totally voluntarily because the husband desires to give it and not because a secular force, third-party or national law pressured him to give it.