[Avodah] Kiddushin and Bigamy

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 03:17:06PM -0500, Zev Sero wrote:
> Why should anyone take sides in a private dispute between him and his
> ex-wife?  What has it got to do with siddur kidushin?

What I would need to know more about before commenting has nothing to do
with qiddushin qua qiddushing, but with (as I wrote):
>> If the first wife is holding things up because he isn't paying his
>> due, eg for child support, then I would hope no one would offer to
>> be mesadeir qiddushin and enable his short-changing his children.

If you don't think a person -- in particular a rav who is capable of
siddur qedushin and thus probably is an authority figure in the eyes of
some people -- has a chiyuv to make sure a father supports his children,
we have nothing to discuss.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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