My wife comes from a rich family while I come from a humble background. Her parents chased after me and were clearly looking to marry off their daughter, whose biological clock was ticking away and had very plain looks. They tried to tempt me, saying that if I married their daughter they would transfer half of the rights in the apartment they had bought her into my name. In the end we married and the transfer was effected. Now, several years on our marriage is in ruins . Now her parents keep on nagging me, saying that it is only fair for me to give back my rights in the apartment. Recently my wife filed a divorce plea at the rabbinical court – and tied in our property, asking for a declarative judgment stating that all the rights in the apartment belong to her, and that it should make appropriate orders about the transfer of my rights to her . Is she likely to succeed regarding the property plea ?
By: דיאנה שאלתיאל•Published on: 10 May, 2022No ! If rights in the apartment were transferred to the son-in-law in return for marriage or given to him as a gift by his bride or her parents and registered in his name at the Land Registry , then the rights are his, and he cannot be deprived of them. A plea to gain back those rights is doomed to failure, whether made at the rabbinical court or the family court.