Under what circumstances can we help you?
We can help you before you have received your bill of divorce (get), under the following circumstances:
- if you are an agunah or a victim of get refusal
- if you are “stuck” in litigation in the rabbinic court with no end in sight
- if your husband is demanding that you give up your rights under the law in exchange for the get
- if the rabbinic court is putting pressure on you to accede to your husband’s demands in exchange for the get
- if you want to sue your husband in the family court for the pain and suffering that you encountered because he refused to give you a get
- if you or your child has been “blacklisted” as unable to marry (mamzer)
- if you feel that the rabbinic court is not handling your case justly.
We can help you after you have received your bill of divorce (get), under the following circumstances:
- if you have waived your legal rights (to marital property, custody, or child support) in exchange for the get
- if you want to sue your ex-husband for the years that he prevented you from remarrying, bearing children, or entering into an intimate relationship
- if you are unable to marry your chosen partner because the rabbinic court has deemed that you are prohibited to your lover (אסורה לבועל)
- if you or your child has been blacklisted as a mamzer if you have been hurt because of unfair judicial processes in the rabbinic court
|
What services do we offer?.
legal consultation, including full legal services in the Family courts, Supreme Court, or Rabbinic Court, Labor Courts, if we decide to take your case.
This includes drafting of all legal documents and representation in the relevant court.
The following are examples of cases that we have taken, or would take:
- damage suits against husbands, or ex-husbands, for get refusal
- petitions to dismiss draconian divorce agreements
- motions to dismiss discriminatory Rabbinic Court tenders
- petitions to the Supreme Court sitting as the High Court of Justice (bagat'z) to dismiss rabbinic court rulings (if the rabbinic court exceeded its jurisdiction or violated basic rules of procedure)
- filing amicus curie (friends of the court) pleadings in support of your petitions if your individual case has ramification on the status of Jewish women (in the family courts, rabbinic courts, and the Supreme Court)
Will we help everyone woman who is going through a divorce?
No. CWJ is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to insuring the general justice interests of women. CWJ chooses its cases carefully to respond to the cause of Jewish women and divorce, with the hope that the outcome of the case taken will engender change in Israeli society and impact the general public’s wellbeing.
How much does it cost?
CWJ is a not-for-profit organization. It charges a minimal fee for its work.
|
|