Also known as: gets · got · getting
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A document signed by a husband under Jewish religious law that effects a divorce and releases the wife from the marital obligations of the ketubah.
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The husband must voluntarily deliver the get to the wife, who must accept it. The document is prepared and supervised by a rabbinical authority to ensure compliance with religious requirements.
Without a get a wife remains bound by the ketubah and cannot remarry within the faith. Children from any subsequent relationship are considered illegitimate under Jewish law, creating strong incentives for judicial enforcement of contractual obligations to provide the get.
New York Domestic Relations Law requires removal of all impediments to remarriage before a civil divorce is granted. Courts have also held non-compliant husbands in contempt when the marriage contract obligates delivery of the get.
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