Enforceability of the Pre-Nuptual Agreement

Gil at Hirhurim asks whether or not pre-nups work?

Two great resources on the pre-nuptual agreement from past JOFA Journals which address this issue:

1. My friend Michelle Greenberg Kobrin wrote an article discussing what makes the pre-nup enforceable in court (since at that point it had not yet been tested in court).

2. I have heard Rabbi Yonah Reiss of the Beit Din of America say (about two years ago) that the pre-nup has not yet been tested in court because it has effectively stopped many cases before reaching the courts. Meaning, the threat of the possible enforcement of the pre-nup by a secular court was enough to resolve those particular agunah cases.

Rachel Levmore, a rabbinic court advocate, also has an article outlining how the pre-nup is used to prevent "get-refusal." Moreover, she cites Rabbi Reiss in a footnote saying:

Rabbi Yonah Reiss, in conversation with me in 2004 verified that, to his knowledge, in every case of a couple that had previously signed a pre-nuptual agreement and later came to divorce, there was a get.

Comments

[elf]

There's a little bit of a chicken-and-egg question here: Are gittin being issued because of the prenup, or are men decent enough to sign a prenup also decent enough not to force a get? (I don't know the answer.)

If, in fact, gittin are not being refused because potentially recalcitrant husbands believe that secular courts will enforce the prenup, we may have been lulled into a false sense of security. As soon as husbands have reason to believe that the prenup may not be efficacious, it will lose its preventative power.

[Karen]

Elf

I totally agree with you about the chicken and egg question. There is definitely need for more serioius research to be done on the effectiveness of the prenup. There is definitely a dissertation topic here!

[Rahel]

This is definitely an important topic. If I may: the word is spelled "pre-nuptial."

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