Is a Jewish woman who refuses to divorce her Jewish husband, and yet will not agree to marital conciliation, still entitled to maintenance from him ?
By: דיאנה שאלתיאל•Published on: 16 May, 2022Not according to a judgment by Tel Aviv Family Court some years ago which refused a plea for maintenance from a separated wife who on the one hand refused to divorce her husband and on the other refused to reconcile the marriage by filing for ‘shlom bayit’ at the rabbinical court. The husband had left home a few years previously, allegedly because of the wife’s shouting.