Jewish prenuptial agreement

The Jewish prenuptial agreement has been developed in recent times with the stated intent of keeping the Jewish woman from becoming an agunah in cases where the husband refuses to grant her a get (Jewish divorce document).[1] Without such an agreement, Jewish marriages cannot be dissolved without the consent and cooperation of both spouses. This new type of prenuptial agreement makes provisions for the possibility of divorce. By setting up rules prior to the marriage in the form of a contract, both spouses[2] have an interest to negotiate a divorce in a dignified manner, and get-refusal is avoided.

  1. ^ See Rachel Levmore, “Get Refusal in the United States and One Method of Prevention: Prenuptial Agreements”, Women in Judaism [ed. Tova Cohen], Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 2001.
  2. ^ "The Halachic Prenup". TheHalachicPrenup.org. May 17, 2010. Archived from the original on March 11, 2024. Retrieved March 10, 2024. ...perhaps most importantly the Halachic Prenup protects both parties to the marriage from issues of agunah and agun where if God-forbid one party breaks their convenant to the other spouse, the other spouse has remedies to ensure that the offending spouse will participate in the religious divorce process and give/accept a Gett