My husband is making my life hell. He is a bully, is physically and verbally violent, insulting , and rude. We are both Jewish. Am I expected to put up with this or am I entitled to live separately, and does he have to enable this financially?
By: דיאנה שאלתיאל•Published on: 16 May, 2022A wife’s right to maintenance includes an element for her ‘accommodation’. She has the right to lead a peaceful home-life. She cannot be expected to put up with physical and verbal violence . This behaviour means that the husband is not fulfilling his marital duty to provide his wife with peaceful living conditions. In a situation like this the wife is entitled to live separately and be supported by her husband. In the Kasif case the Supreme Court held in the eighties that this ‘separate accommodation’ can be expressed in three different ways, by the husband:
a) making a separate home available for his wife and children.
b) leaving the family home.
c) making separate accommodation available within the family home.