Courts grant woman Get after husband loses ability to speak

The husband refused his wife a divorce, then had a stroke and went mute

The Rabbinical Courts of Ashkelon on Monday successfully arranged a get – a halachic (Jewish legal) document of divorce – for a woman whose husband suffered a severe stroke and lost the ability to speak.

The woman originally sued for divorce while her husband was still fully able to give one, but he vehemently refused, ignoring court rulings that he "must divorce her immediately and unconditionally."

The man then suffered a severe stroke, thus losing his ability to speak and move, along with some cognitive function. With him not being able to vocally approve of a get – which the husband must verbally consent to according to halachic law – the court feared the woman would be trapped in her marriage for years.

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Courts grant woman a Get after husband loses ability to speak (Jerusalem Post)

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