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May 28, 2018 6:50 pm at 6:50 pm
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Joseph
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Rav Elyashiv paskened that NY’s second Get Law, if used by a wife (i.e. her lawyer invokes it in court), automatically results in a Get Me’usa. This is normative Halacha as held by the vast majority of local rabbonim.
The first Get Law was not ruled unconstitutional. It’s still law in NY alongside the second Get Law. The first law Rav Moshe approved of and is pretty benign. It just denies a legal divorce if there’s no Get.