Can a husband whose wife has committed adultery be made to shoulder the financial burden of divorce proceedings at the rabbinate ?
By: דיאנה שאלתיאל•Published on: 23 June, 2022Possibly, if the husband proves adultery at the rabbinical court , it orders her to divorce on the basis of this, and he requests that she be ordered to foot the bill. In September 2006 the Greater Rabbinical Court upheld a costs order made against an adulterous wife by Netanya Rabbinical Court. She had been ordered to pay her husband’s legal fees in proving her adultery and his entitlement to divorce, as well as the paying for the cost of the private detective he hired to produce the necessary evidence.