Israeli Divorce Based on 'Get' Not Recognized in New York
By Jeremy Morley
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a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ySg-RK3MUak/SDGmbKPeARI/AAAAAAAAAxk/VnDuS566MRk/s1600-h/beth+din.gif"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ySg-RK3MUak/SDGmbKPeARI/AAAAAAAAAxk/VnDuS566MRk/s200/beth+din.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202122030125547794" border="0" //abr /span style=";font-family:quot;;font-size:10;" span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:78%;" /spanspan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"A state judge has declined to recognize an Israeli divorce judgment that was based on a "get," or decree of divorce, issued by a Brooklyn rabbi.br /br //spanspan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);""If this court were to sanction the utilization of a 'Get' to circumvent the constitutional requirement that only the Supreme Court can grant a civil divorce, then a party who obtains a 'Get' in New York could register it in a foreign jurisdiction and potentially, later on, rely on the 'Get' to obtain a civil divorce in New York thereby rendering New York State's Constitutional scheme as to a civil divorce ineffectual," Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey S. Sunshine of Brooklyn (See Profile) ruled in Tsirlin v. Tsirlin, 20542/06.br /br //spanspan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);""It would have the practical effect of amending the Domestic Relations Law section 170 to provide a new grounds for divorce," he said.br /br //spanspan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"Justice Sunshine allowed the plaintiff-husband's /spanst1:place style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" st="on"Brooklyn/st1:placespan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" divorce proceedings to go forward, denying the wife's motion to dismiss on the grounds of comity and judicial estoppel.br /br //spanspan style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"Jeremy D. Morley, an expert in international family law who is not involved in the case, called the decision surprising./spanspan style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"br /br /"Usually we would grant comity to a foreign divorce decree so long as at least one of the parties was domiciled in the foreign country," said Mr. Morley. "It's most unusual for a domestic court to look at the reasons behind a foreign divorce decree./spanspan style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);""br /br /"It'll be interesting to see how the decision not to give comity plays out in other situations. How would it apply when you have an administrative divorce from /spanst1:country-region style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" st="on"st1:place st="on"Japan/st1:place/st1:country-regionspan style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);", which is alien to our system, or a divorce from a country that allows divorce for grounds that we find unusual?"br /br //spanspan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"Alla and Alexander Tsirlin married in /spanst1:city style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" st="on"st1:place st="on"Jerusalem/st1:place/st1:cityspan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" in September 1995. Less than six months later, Ms. Tsirlin gave birth to a son, Jonathan. Ms. Tsirlin works in a medical office; Mr. Tsirlin is a bus driver./spanspan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"The family moved from /spanst1:country-region style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" st="on"Israel/st1:country-regionspan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" to the /spanst1:country-region style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" st="on"United States/st1:country-regionspan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" in October 2003, though Mr. Tsirlin soon returned to /spanst1:country-region style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" st="on"st1:place st="on"Israel/st1:place/st1:country-regionspan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" a month later due to passport problems.br /br //spanspan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"In December 2003, the couple appeared before a /spanst1:place style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" st="on"Brooklyn/st1:placespan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rabbinate, which issued a "get," or religious divorce, according to Mr. Tsirlin.br /br //spanspan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"Two years later, /spanst1:country-region style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" st="on"Israel/st1:country-regionspan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"'s /spanst1:address style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" st="on"st1:street st="on"Rabbinical Court/st1:street, st1:city st="on"Jerusalem/st1:city/st1:addressspan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" District, issued a divorce judgment based on the 2003 /spanst1:place style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" st="on"Brooklyn/st1:place decree.br /br /span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"In July 2006, Mr. Tsirlin initiated the present divorce action, in which he also sought joint custody and child support./spanspan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"Ms. Tsirlin contested the action on comity and judicial estoppel grounds, citing the Israeli divorce decree.br /br //spanspan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"In a decision last week, Justice Sunshine rejected Ms. Tsirlin's motion. He found that allowing a U.S.-based get to serve as the basis of a valid divorce would provide an end-run around the state's divorce laws.br /br //spanspan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"Justice Sunshine relied on the 1924 Appellate Division, First Department, decision Chertok v. Chertok, 208 App.Div. 161, in which the court found that a get acquired in /spanst1:state style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" st="on"New York/st1:statespan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" and "consummated" in /spanst1:country-region style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" st="on"Russia/st1:country-regionspan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" was not binding in the /spanst1:country-region style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" st="on"st1:place st="on"United States/st1:place/st1:country-regionspan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"./spanspan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);""[A]pplying the holding of Chertok to the facts of this case, although the Israeli government may recognize the divorce granted in /spanst1:city style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" st="on"st1:place st="on"New York City/st1:place/st1:cityspan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);", it is void in its inception under our law," Justice Sunshine held.br //span/spanspan style=";font-family:quot;;font-size:10;" span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:78%;" br /By Mark Fassbr /New York Law Journal, May 19, 2008/span/spanbr /span style=";font-family:quot;;font-size:10;" span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"br //span/span
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