Reply To: Is it ever proper to withhold a get?

@Barry

If indeed your facts are correct (and believe me when I say that in majority of cases the charges the wife makes are true! The police put them thru vigorous questioning and re-questioning and it’s not easy and very foolhardy to try to fool the police) mi have to say you’re contributing terribly to the problem! If you know of a lawyer who has broken the law this way and deserves to be disbarred it’s your obligation and others’ to speak up! If you bemoan the system that allows false accusations to be made, and you claim to know for a fact that lawyers are encouraging it, you’re only perpetuating the problem and helping it to be repeated with this crooked lawyer’s help!

And yes I know of the complete opposite of such cases too. The problem is so many in our community are too quick to believe the “frumme ” fine man we know on the outside can’t possibly do what he’s accused of, that’s wherein lies the problem, people judge and conclude without knowing anything. So many of you are making light here of the woman’s desire to end the marriage as if she just woke up,one morning decides she’s not happy and foolishly picks up and wants out. That’s absurd, most times it’s because of very serious issues and just because you’re not privy to the truth of what went on in the home don’t assume you understand and can judge and agree that the man has any right to withhold the get. He doesn’t, and Hashem Yisborach will hear the cries of the Agunos who are suffering at the hands of their miserable vindictive husband.