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I hope you never have to know much about divorce, but I am a family law attorney.
“Batei Din are not apt to accept a case that is not in their geographic area.”
Actually it happens all the time.
Outside major Jewish population areas there are not many Batei Din.
I live and practice law less than 75 miles from Manhattan. The nearest regularly establish Batei Din are
in NY. We often take the parties to Brooklyn or Long Island for a Jewish Divorce.
For uncontested Jewish Divorce, where everything has been worked out beforehand, I may import a
Dayan from Chabad in Brooklyn. The driver he works with is his sofer to prepare the Get and two
Rebbeim from the local Chabad day school serve as the other members of the Beis Din. My preference is
an established Beis Din that meets regularly and has an office and staff, especially if there is a chance
that the divorcing couple or their offspring may ever want to settle in EY and get married there.
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