CWJ Precedents
To date, we have set the following precedents:
2004 -
Family Court awards damages of 425,000 NIS for get-recalcitrance (refusal to give a wife a religious divorce).
2006 -
Supreme Court orders Rabbinic Court Administration to explain its policy of paying off recalcitrant husbands for get ("the agunah fund").
2008 -
Family Court declares that there is cause of action for damages against persons who aid and abet get-recalcitrance.
2008 -
Family Court rules that get-recalcitrance is liable for damages even when rabbinic court has not "ordered" the husband to divorce his wife, and awards damages in the amount of 550,000 NIS.
2008 -
Labor Court disqualifies tender issued by the Rabbinic Court Administration that gave preference to men applying for the job of legal assistants to rabbinic judges.
2008 -
Family Court rules that get-recalcitrance is a factual determination that can be decided by the family court without reference to a rabbinic court order; and awards damages in the amount of 700,000 NIS.
2008 -
Supreme Court orders Rabbinic Court to explain its decision to annul the conversions of 2 of CWJ's clients; as well as its decision to question all of the conversion of Rabbi Druckman since 1990. The Court orders the Attorney General to present a position paper regarding conversions.
2009-
Rabbinic Court annuls marriage of CWJ client in order to clear children of mamzer stigma (children conceived of their mother's extramarital union and ostracized under Jewish/Israeli law).
2010 -
Family Court declares void clauses in divorce agreement, authorized by the rabbinic court, in which mother waived her parental rights in exchange for the get.
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