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The rules governing the get are subject to the civil law of the country, which has precedence over the Jewish marital law. On the other hand, if a civil divorce is obtained, there is still a need under Jewish law, for the Jewish divorce procedure outlined in this article to be followed if the couple wishes to be considered divorced according to ...
When the Japanese Empire occupied the Philippines during the World War II, the Japanese-installed Philippine Executive Commission issued Executive Order No. 141 on March 25, 1943, which repealed Act No. 2710 and expanded the divorce law in the archipelago through the new decree providing eleven grounds for a valid absolute divorce. [7]
A mohel (Hebrew: מוֹהֵל , Ashkenazi pronunciation [ˈmɔɪ.əl], plural: מוֹהֲלִים mohalim, Imperial Aramaic: מוֹהֲלָא mohala, "circumciser") is a Jewish man trained in the practice of brit milah, the "covenant of male circumcision". [1] Women who are trained in the practice are referred to as a mohelet
The federal Divorce Act of 1968 standardized the law of divorce across Canada and introduced the no-fault concept of permanent marriage breakdown as a ground for divorce as well as fault-based grounds including adultery, cruelty and desertion. [106] In 1986, Parliament replaced the Act, which simplified the law of divorce further. [107]
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.
A mamzer in Jewish law is a child resulting from an incestuous liaison or an adulterous liaison by a married woman. [38] This is not necessarily the same definition as a bastard by other societies, as it does not include a child of an unmarried woman.) [ 38 ] As a mamzer is excluded from the assembly ( Deuteronomy 23:3 ), the Talmud forbids a ...
Marriage law is the body of legal specifications and requirements and other laws that regulate the initiation, continuation, and validity of marriages, an aspect of family law, that determine the validity of a marriage, and which vary considerably among countries in terms of what can and cannot be legally recognized by the state.
The penultimate sections deal with the end of a marriage with Sotah which is concerned with infidelity and Gittin which is about actual divorce (Rambam's order swaps these two). Kiddushin is at the end because it follows the Scriptural order that once a woman is divorced, she can get betrothed to any man, this subsequent betrothal symbolised by ...