Get Refusal Can Now Be Recognized As A Criminal Offense In UK

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Husbands who refuse their wives a religious divorce  are more likely to be prosecuted following “momentous” changes to the government’s Domestic Abuse Bill.

A man who refuses a get will now be clearly recognised as exerting controlling and coercive behaviour, which is listed as a criminal offence under the Serious Crime Act of 2015.

If found guilty, an offender could face up to five years in jail.

While get refusal could previously have been considered a criminal offence under the 2015 Act, experts say the law was ambiguous and had yet to be fully tested in court. New amendments to the Act, combined with the Domestic Abuse Bill, have now eradicated any doubt.

Read more at Times of Israel.

{Matzav.com}

 


10 COMMENTS

  1. The family structure is white supremacy anyhow, so woke-ist dogma insists that we seek to change the Torah, ר”ל.

    No, don’t just tell people to either be mezaneh – or simply keep the Torah. Instead, tell them that we can change the Torah to what some socialist idiots consider to be more ‘just’.

    Any ‘get’ that is given to avoid prosecution by secular government is simply not a get and not worth the paper it’s printed on.

  2. When will parental alienation be considered domestic abuse and/or child abuse? It is a similarly cruel form of coercion and manipulation where a scorned spouse poisons the minds of the children of the marriage against the targeted parent to hurt the targeted parent. This process also hurts the children and deprives the targeted parent of basic civil rights in a very similar way to how a Get refuser deprived a woman of a basic civil right.

  3. I told my wife I need to think about it, 8 years ago. Now you tell me that I am breaking some new law?? Phoony. I am still thinking.

  4. Absolute get meusa that causes mamzerim after. We’ve had enough plague this past year. No need to play with fire. And while real withholding is extremely wrong, rushing to it is also reckless and against Torah. The point of these is to avoid calm second thought as well.

  5. Dontgotocourt, A MeSarev Get means the Beis Din system has failed. This article is proof of that. We have people protecting Mesarvay Gettim. What would Moshe veYisroel say to that? If a marriage doesnt work out, give a get and get on with your life, let Hashem exact justice.

  6. There is no such thing a a get crises 99.9 percent of misarvay gitten is a reaction to the woman using her children as a human shield ask any bais din .This is the real issue a issue that is being ignored by the so called haimish community name me one organization that fights for fathers rights I challenge anybody to name me one

  7. Show me one Bais din in new york that has ever paskened that a husband could be forced to give a gett. The reason is because they have a warped concept of shalom bayis . That for some odd reason a lady does not want to live with a guy that we can force them to make up????????
    AND THEN WE CRY WHY THE LADIES GO TO COURT OR WORSE THE INTERNATIONAL BAIS DIN.
    It is because we did not give them an ehrlich place to go to.
    WE SENT THEM THERE

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