Topic
Religious Divorce
24 published works
Religion Clause
State Court Order to Cooperate in Religious Divorce Cannot Be Challenged in Federal Trial Court Proceeding
In Azimi v. Worrell, (WD VA, June 3, 2025), plaintiff appearing pro se, challenged on Free Exercise and Establishment Clause grounds an order by a Virginia state trial court judge in…
Religion Clause
India’s Supreme Court Says Muslim Women Can Invoke Secular Law for Maintenance Award After a Religious Divorce
In Mohd v. State of Telangana, (India Sup. Ct., July 10, 2024), a 2-judge panel of India's Supreme Court held that a Muslim woman who has been divorced under Muslim law,…
Religion Clause
Husband’s Defamation Action Against Organization Assisting His Wife in Obtaining a Get Is Dismissed
In Satz v. Organization for the Resolution of Agunot, Inc., (SD NY, March 28, 2024), a New York federal district court dismissed a husband's suit alleging defamation and several other torts…
Religion Clause
Enforcing Agreement To Cooperate With Jewish Religious Court Does Not Violate Establishment Clause
In Satz v. Satz, (NJ Super., Aug. 18, 2023), a New Jersey state appellate court upheld a trial court's order enforcing a marital settlement agreement (MSA) that the parties had…
Legal Profession Blog
Get Back
The New Jersey Appellate Court found no Constitutional violation in enforcing a religious aspect of a marital settlement agreementThe parties engaged in two years of contentious litigation prior to the…
Religion Clause
Parties Cannot Be Forced to Arbitration Over Issues Surrounding Jewish Religious Divorce
In Bierig-Kiejdan v. Kiejdan, (NJ App., Feb. 16, 2023), a New Jersey state appeals court held that a family court judge could not order parties to a divorce to return to…
NJ Family Legal Blog
Appellate Division Rules That A Court Cannot Compel Arbitration on Get Issue Absent Agreement
By Eliana Baer
Get refusal is an issue to which secular courts have yet to find an adequate solution because of constraints implicating freedom of religion and the state’s prohibition against entanglement with…
NJ Family Legal Blog
Religious Coercion is Legal Duress
By Eliana Baer
Duress has long been considered by New Jersey courts as a cognizable defense where the provision of a Get – defined as a Jewish ecclesiastical divorce – is conditioned upon a…
Family Law Prof Blog
Religious Divorce Oversea Is valid? Reflection On A Tax Decision
By Family Law
From Forbes:A tax decision from the United States Tax Court addressed a tax matter in which marital status is an important factor. In the Estate of Semone Grossman, Semone Grossman,…
Family Law Prof Blog
U.K. Rabbinic Courts: New Anti-Domestic Abuse Law
By Family Law
From Haaretz:The passage of a new law effectively criminalizing Orthodox men’s refusal to grant their wives a religious divorce has polarized the British Jewish community, pitting women’s advocates against a…