A state judge said it would violate an Orthodox Jewish man’s constitutional rights for the judge to use a secular divorce proceeding to compel him to grant his wife a “Get,” an authorization to remarry under religious law.
While granting Esther Masri and Joseph Habib Masri a divorce under New York’s no-fault divorce law, Orange County Supreme Court Justice Catherine Bartlett declined to go past the guidelines of the state’s divorce statute when granting spousal maintenance and child support in Esther Masri’s favor.
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