A Haifa woman has been refusing to accept a get from her husband. The story spans a period of 14 years, Ynet reports. The couple split in 1993 when the husband filed for divorce. In a strange set of events, at some point they moved back together and signed an agreement by which the husband would pay alimony and child support despite sharing living space. The husband also agreed to cancel his request for divorce.
The couple decided to split again back in 2000, with the husband moving out. Eleven years later, in 2011, he filed for divorce again. He alleged the wife was making life very difficult for him and that she was brainwashing the children against him and keeping them from seeing him. He also stated she was not accepting a get because she felt doing so would stop his monthly payments of 3,500 NIS.
While the wife demanded shalom bayis (counseling), the husband offered her 80,000 NIS to take the get and permit him to get on with his life. She turned down the offer after doing the math, explaining this amounted to merely the amount he would pay her over the coming two years.
The Chief Rabbinate beis din ruled the ‘shalom bayis’ was not reasonable in light of the fact the couple was separated for so many years. They accepted the husband’s position that the wife was making him miserable and she was not interested in him. The beis din felt it was clear the wife was refusing the divorce to extort additional money out of the husband.
Ultimately the woman received 100,000 NIS and accepted her divorce.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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9 Responses
A run of the mill divorce dispute type of case. Nothing newsworthy here.
he should have walked away, leaving her a aguna, until she came begging for a get.
then give her a get, her kesuva and tell her to peddle off…
Since I work 20 years as a marriage counselor I must tell you… Many many in between facts are missing… It’s unfair for anyone to make any assumptions ….
And I must add having this article printed talks on its own….
“The Chief Rabbinate beis din…. accepted the husband’s position that the wife was making him miserable and she was not interested in him. The beis din felt it was clear the wife was refusing the divorce to extort additional money out of the husband”
isn’t this a clear case of getting a Heter Mei’ah Rabonim
to marry another woman and not paying her not even one penny?
Moral of the story???
been there, done that. same story all the time. the only way to get any $ out of husband is to hold out. Its the beis din’s fault that all parties have to go through this. They should be awarding the wife/ mother a decent amount of support/ housing.
neighbor #7: The beis din, halachicly, cannot award more than halacha states is owed.
3,500 NIS a month. is this a sum a respectable sum?