Beis Din will decide: Is the huge sum of the ketuba false?

A resident of Ashdod recently appealed to the Rabbinical Court of the Supreme Rabbinical Court in Netanya, for which he must pay half a half a million shekels for the ketuba written in 19772 - which registered a total of 152,000 pounds. The appeal argued - among other things - that the amount of the original ketuba totaled 2000 pounds have been forged using white-out and changed to the amount of 152,000 pounds, eight times the amount of the apartment in which the ketuba was written.

Attorney Sharon Perez, who represents the husband, claimed on appeal that the court relied on the photo copy of the ketuba and ruled that the original was lost - though the woman claimed that she had forgotten the ketuba at home. In addition it was also claimed he did not witness the editor the ketuba, the Chief Rabbi of Kfar Saba, and hadn't heard the testimony of two witnesses who were present during the preparation of the ketuba. According to the appeal, the Beis Din did not designate an expert to examine the claim of forgery.

The husband also argues that the court relied in part on the testimony of the chief rabbi of Kfar Saba given at an unknown date, when it is unclear before whom the Rabbi testified. According to the testimony, the Rabbi remembered the amount present on the ketuba and recognized the husband's father, even though the husband claims that his father did not know the Rabbi.

They also argued that the Netanya Rabbinical Court was mistaken when relied on the testimony of the woman despite lack of credibility. For example, he notes that the woman filed against the husband seven false police complaints claiming that the husband beat her, but police closed the files. Except for one case which brought about an indictment but ultimately did not lead to the conviction of her husband.

Attorney Perez said that the result of the ruling is that the woman will get a million shekels (the value of the shared apartment) and the husband will lose everything. This is despite the fact that he bought the apartment from his money and the woman did not work at all. According to him, the husband bought the current apartment with his ten fingers, which is all that that he has in his old age, and will be all he exists from for the rest of his life. "This is all the husband has, is it justified to take it all?" he asked.

In the appeal he requests the Beis Din to determine that the woman is not entitled to compensation and the amount stipulated on the ketuba is false. In addition, he also wants to abolish the determination that one must attach the ketuba to the cost of living or any other type of linkage.

Alternatively, he requests that the high Beis Din will determine that the actual amount on the ketuba should be 12 thousand pounds at the most - at the value of income or living expenses for the year.

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