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The husband succumbing to a physical or mental disease that leaves him in a coma or insane and unable actively to grant a divorce; The husband refusing to grant his wife a get when she is deemed entitled to one under Jewish law. A woman denied a get by her husband is technically called a mesorevet get, although the term aguna is more commonly used.
Sometimes a Jewish woman can be held in a so-called "limping marriage" when her husband refuses co-operation in the religious form of divorce. She may have received a civil divorce but cannot remarry within her religion, meaning that for all intents and purposes, she may not be able to remarry at all—a phenomenon known as agunah. Where one ...
It's when one spouse wants counseling and the other refuses that divorce is likely. "One of the things that's almost a guarantee [of divorce] is when a man refuses his wife's requests to go to ...
The problem of get-refusal became more widespread when Jews lived in countries where civil divorce was available, separate from religious divorce.The earliest prenuptial agreement for the prevention of get-refusal was developed and accepted by the Rabbinical Council of Morocco on December 16, 1953 ("Sefer Hatakanot", Vol. 1, The Institute for Moroccan Jewish Tradition, Jerusalem).
For example, Jen just turned 39 and, after a decade of marriage, her husband Ben decided to file for divorce. They don’t have any children, but she used up her savings for a down payment on a ...
My husband of nearly 20 years dumped me unceremoniously on an otherwise unremarkable Friday evening in January. We'd spent the day together, running errands and sharing fries at lunch.
Le Get (The Divorce), painting by Moshe Rynecki, c. 1930. Postcard illustrating a divorce procedure, Jewish Museum of Switzerland A get, ghet, [1] [2] [3] or gett (/ ɡ ɛ t /; Imperial Aramaic: גט, plural gittin גטין) is a document in Jewish religious law which effectuates a divorce between a Jewish couple.
Comment discussing relationship advice and moving on, related to ex-husband regrets after divorce. Comment about ex-husband’s regret over leaving 17-year marriage after ex-wife’s remark.