[Avodah] kesuvah

[Daniel Israel]

kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
> Alternatively, if you are referring to payments made in conjunction 
> with the civil divorce, then I am VERY confused, because in many 
> cases the civil divorce occurs long after the get is given.

In all the cases I am aware of the get occurs after the civil divorce. 
Is that not the general practice?  Wouldn't giving a get first be 
problematic since the beis din doesn't yet know the parameters of the 
civil settlement?

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Daniel M. Israel
dmi1 at cornell.edu