My wife and I signed the Rabbinical Council of America prenuptual agreement. It specifies that if chas v’shalom our marriage were to end, all matters regarding separation and divorce are to be decided by the Beit Din of America. The RCA prenup is accepted by the overwhelming majority of poskim as well as by secular courts in the United States, and the Beit Din of America consists of outstanding, widely respected talmidei chachamim. Signing the prenup means that neither of us would be able to go to secular court and neither of us would be able to shop for a corruptible beit din. If more couples would sign the RCA prenup we would not have the abuses of halachah described here. I commend Rabbi Mordechai Willig for developing the RCA prenup; it has kept many women from becoming agunot and has protected many men and women from the temptation to violate halachah by using the secular court system inappropriately.
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