My wife and I have separated. Our 3 year old child lives with her. My wife says I am legally bound to support our son but I said it is ridiculous as has his own income from a trust fund his maternal grandfather made for him. My wife and I are Jewish. Do I have to pay child maintenance?
Answer:
A Jewish father’s maintenance obligation is based on Jewish religious law which has been adopted by civil legislation, the Family Law Amendment (Maintenance) Act of 1959. Up until a minor is 6 the father’s maintenance obligation is absolute in Jewish law, so your 3 year old's own income from a trust fund would not alter your maintenance obligation at this stage ,but between the ages of 6-15 it will be taken into account.
Father’s Maintenance Obligation & Yeshiva Studies
Father’s Maintenance Obligation & Yeshiva Studies
Question:
Does a Jewish father who studies at Yeshiva and does not work have to support his children?
Answer:
Yes. Studying at Yeshiva does not free a father of his maintenance obligation to his minor children under Jewish law, and nor does an agreement made in which the father-in-law undertakes to support the family so that the son-in-law can devote himself to religious study . While Jewish learning is an important value it takes second place to a Jewish father’s duty to support his children, held Jerusalem family court in July 2001 .
In the case the mother had filed the father for maintenance for the couple’s three young children. In his defence the father, who came from a rabbinical family, claimed that an agreement signed by the couple’s fathers before their marriage freed him of any financial obligation towards their future children and allowed him to devote himself to religious study. In the agreement the father-in-law had undertaken to provide the couple with a monthly income. Following his death and after his daughter’s funds started to run dry, the father was filed for maintenance . The family court rejected his defence and held that the minors were not bound by the agreement. They were not parties to it and were not even born at the time it was made, it said. Any financial help he received from his wife or family was purely voluntary and did not relieve the father of his obligations, the court held, ordering him to pay child maintenance , stressing that he must make a great effort to support his minor children.
Child Maintenance – Custodial Father Jewish
Child Maintenance – Custodial Father Jewish
Question :
Can a Jewish husband who has custody of his minor child get maintenance for him from his wife, the child’s mother?
Answer:
The question of whether a Jewish father with custody of a minor child can get maintenance for him paid by the mother depends on whether she is Jewish or not and upon the minor’s age.
This is because his maintenance obligation depends on his personal law, Jewish religious law. If his wife is not Jewish their child is not Jewish, and his maintenance obligation will be covered by civil law as Jewish religious law will not oblige him to support the minor.
If the wife/mother is Jewish then the father is not entitled to file the mother for maintenance if the child is under 15 because the burden of supporting the minor falls solely on the father until that age. From 15 onwards, both parents are responsible for supporting the child, depending on their relative incomes.
Alternatively, if the wife/mother is non-Jewish the father may be entitled to get some maintenance for the child as civil law –the Family Law (Maintenance) Amendment Act of 1959- shares the burden between both parents, depending on their relative incomes, irrespective of the minor’s age.
Law Applying to Moslem Child Support At Family Court
Law Applying to Moslem Child Support At Family Court
Question:
I have heard that a married Moslem woman can now file her Moslem husband for child maintenance at the family court, instead of the Sha’ari court. If she does, by which law will the court decide on the issue?
Answer:
Providing the Moslem couple are married in the eyes of Islamic law, then the personal law relating to Moslems will apply, even though the case will be heard in a civil court, the family one. If however, the Moslem mother is not married, then the man’s obligation, once paternity is proved, will be based on Israeli civil law . This is because Islamic law only recognizes paternity within Moslem religious marriage and according to the 1959 Family Law Amendment (Maintenance) Act, where a father is not obliged to pay maintenance according to his personal law, or where personal law does not apply, he will be liable to pay child support according to the act. Under this, both parents will be equally responsible for supporting the child, based on their relative incomes.
Married/Divorced Moslem Father's Child Maintenance Obligation
Married/Divorced Moslem Father's Child Maintenance Obligation
Question:
Is there any link between a father's earnings and the level of maintenance he is obliged to pay his minor children if all of them are Moslems , and their mother is/was married to him?
Case:
Yes ! The level of maintenance he is obliged to pay is linked not only to his actual earnings, but also to his earning potential, and of course, their needs. This was pointed out in proceedings between a separated Moslem married couple at Nazareth Family Court in May 2006.
Moslem - Child Maintenance Until 18, not Extended to 21
Question:
To what age are children entitled to be supported by their fathers in Israel where both parents are Moslem, and they will not serve in the Israeli army ?
Answer:
Until the age of 18, in principle. What applies to children who do compulsory army service, and who can get up to a 1/3 of the maintenance they were entitled to as minors, from the age of 18-21, does not apply here to Moslems ,who are exempt from army service.
Maintenance & Spouse’s Children From First Marriage – Father Dead
Maintenance & Spouse’s Children From First Marriage – Father Dead
Question :
My wife has threatened to file for divorce and for maintenance for her three children, one of whom is from her first husband who is deceased. I am an immigrant from Russia, with no recorded religion. My wife is Jewish. Will I have to pay maintenance for the child from her first marriage?
Answer:
Yes, as you have no religion, under Israeli law you are not subject to any personal law, and your maintenance obligation is governed by the Family Law Amendment (Maintenance) Act of 1959. Under the act you have to bear the maintenance burden for your children and those of your spouse - even though you are not the biological parent. This obligation is shared by the two of you, depending on your relative incomes.
Child Support - From Current Husband or Biological Father ?
Child Support - From Current Husband or Biological Father ?
Question:
I am an immigrant from the former U.S.S.R. and have no religion. My wife is Jewish. We have a son and she has a daughter from her first marriage . Our marriage has broken down. The children stayed with her when we separated. I have just received a plea for child maintenance for both children. Do I have to pay maintenance for my wife’s daughter ? The child’s father is alive; he is probably in the U.S.S.R., but has not made contact with his daughter for some time and my wife doesn’t know where he lives now.
Answer:
A parent’s maintenance obligation regarding minor children is based on his/her personal, religious law. Where a person has no religious law – as in the case of someone without a religion – or the personal law does not apply, then civil legislation applies. The Family Law (Maintenance) Amendment Act of 1959 states that a married person is liable for the maintenance of his minor children and those of his spouse. However, where the biological father of the spouse’s child is alive, maintenance must be filed against him first. Only when this is done and the biological father cannot support the child at all then can a maintenance plea be filed against the child’s mother’s spouse.
These points were made clear by Tel Aviv Family Court in 2002 in a case where it held that a non-Jewish spouse was not liable for the maintenance of his wife’s child from her first marriage because she had not first applied for financial support from the biological father who was alive. Maintenance was awarded only for the couple’s mutual child.
Child Maintenance: Father Kibbutz Member
Child Maintenance: Father Kibbutz Member
Question:
How is maintenance calculated for children living in the city with their mother if their father is a member of a kibbutz?
Answer:
A number of principles have been developed in the courts to calculate how much child maintenance a father living on a kibbutz should pay for his children if they live outside the kibbutz with their mother.
They are :
(a)The father’s financial capability to pay should be based on what he would earn if he worked outside the kibbutz rather than hiding behind the cloak of the kibbutz .
(b)The children’s standard of living should not be inferior to that of the father.
(c)The standard of living that the father owes if his (ex)spouse left the kibbutz for a justified reason should be equal to what she and the children would have had if they had remained on the kibbutz – but no more.
(d)The differences in standards of living between rich and poor kibbutzim should be taken into account
(e)The father could be expected to have more than one job, just like a father of several children who lived in the city, in order to support them.
Maintenance For Children On Kibbutz
Maintenance For Children On Kibbutz
Question:
My children live with their mother on kibbutz. I live in the city and am not a member of the kibbutz . Do I have to support my children or is this the responsibility of the kibbutz?
Answer:
A father bears the legal responsibility for supporting his children, even if someone else – here the kibbutz – does this in practice. So the Supreme Court held in the sixties in a case concerning a father and his maintenance obligation towards his children who were living with his ex-wife on kibbutz. The father was not a kibbutz member. He claimed that the kibbutz looked after the children’s every need and that, therefore, he was not legally bound to support them. His appeal was rejected.
Maintenance For Adopted Child
Maintenance For Adopted Child
Question :
My husband and I adopted a child. My husband and I have now split up. He left us and the child has remained with me. Can I file my husband for maintenance for our child, as well as for me?
Answer:
Yes. An adopted child has full rights to maintenance . An adoption order transfers all rights and obligations from the biological parents to the adoptive parents. Furthermore, under the Family Law Amendment (Maintenance) Act of 1959 the definition of a child given in the introduction includes an adopted child. Thus a plea for child maintenance can be made against an adoptive father.
Agreement Over Child Maintenance After Court Judgment
Agreement Over Child Maintenance After Court Judgment
Question:
Is it possible for a father to make an agreement reducing child support with the mother after the family court has passed judgment about his maintenance obligation?
Answer:
Firstly, the concept of parents agreeing about child maintenance made after a court has passed judgment on how much the father should pay is problematic. Clearly, child maintenance is designed to cover the minor’s ongoing needs. Any agreement altering what the court decided should receive prior authorisation by the court. It needs authorisation according to the Legal Capacity & Guardianship Act of 1962 as in principle an agreement reducing child maintenance is contrary to the ‘child’s good’ – the latter being the guiding force of this legislation. It also needs authorisation according to the Family Law Amendment (Maintenance) Act of 1959.
Maintenance Agreement - Implied Cancellation & New Plea
Maintenance Agreement - Implied Cancellation & New Plea
Question:
I got divorced a few years ago. I paid child maintenance according to our divorce agreement. We then lived together again for a few years and have recently split up. Do I still owe maintenance according to the agreement ?
Answer:
When a man and a woman live together again for a long period after divorcing one another there is an implied cancellation of the man’s maintenance obligation according to their divorce agreement. Thus if they split up once again, a new maintenance plea will have to be filed.
Arbitration & Child Maintenance
Arbitration & Child Maintenance
Question:
I am trying to negotiate a divorce agreement with my husband from whom I am separated. It is almost impossible trying to get him to agree to giving the children a decent sum of maintenance. He suggested putting a clause in our divorce agreement which fixes a sum for a limited period and then leaves the matter in the hands of an arbitrator. Is this possible ?
Answer:
No, the general rule developed in the courts is that children have a material right to maintenance and their parents cannot limit this or the way in which it is actualised by a divorce agreement signed by them. More specifically, the Tel Aviv Family Court has specifically stated that primary jurisdiction for child maintenance lies with the family court and cannot be handed over to an arbitrator.
In that case, the children had filed for maintenance from their father at the family court, despite an agreement signed by the parents whereby they undertook that future disputes on child maintenance would be dealt with by named arbitrators whose decision would be binding. The court proceeded to deal with the plea.
Child Maintenance When Mother Receives Disability Allowance
Child Maintenance When Mother Receives Disability Allowance
Question:
Since I was injured in a car accident I have been unable to work and live off a disability allowance from the National Insurance Institute. I receive extra money for one ‘dependant’ - my daughter who lives with me. If I file her father for child maintenance, how will this affect the money I get from the National Insurance ? I do not live with my daughter’s father anymore . We never married and I receive no maintenance from him.
Answer:
If a woman who receives no maintenance for herself, but lives off a disability allowance with an additional sum for her dependent child , files the child’s father for maintenance for the minor this will affect the figure the court sets. The ‘extra’ received for the minor dependant in the disability allowance will be deducted from the maintenance the father has to pay. There will be no need to set maintenance for the period of the child’s compulsory military service (a customary third of the original figure). This is because the supplementary sum for a dependant covers this period. These principles emerged from a child maintenance case before the Tel Aviv family court in July 2001 where the mother lived off a disability allowance which included a supplementary figure for two minors living with her.
Child Attending Special School – Divorced Mother Gets Expenses
Child Attending Special School – Divorced Mother Gets Expenses
Question:
The rabbinical court granted me custody over my son and my ex-husband pays him maintenance. I was working but have been forced to change from a full-time to a part-time job because of my son’s learning difficulties. He has a severe concentration problem and attends a special school outside our district . There is no organized transport and I have to take him and bring him back every day. Can I get any money for this from my ex-husband?
Answer:
A Jewish divorcee is not entitled to maintenance after her divorce but where she is forced to stop work, or reduce her hours to devote herself to caring for a child with special needs, then she can file her ‘ex’ to recover expenses involved , such as travel expenses involved in taking the child to a special school. She should be entitled to some if not all of the expenses involved.
Maintenance From Estate – Handicapped Child
Maintenance From Estate – Handicapped Child
Question:
Is a handicapped child entitled to maintenance from a deceased’s estate ? If so, up to what age?
Answer:
The Inheritance Law says a child of the deceased who is handicapped is eligible for maintenance from his parent’s estate ‘ all the time he is handicapped..’ But the concept of a handicapped child does not appear in the above law so reference to other legislation must be made.
The National Insurance Law (Consolidated Version) says:
The National Insurance Law (Consolidated Version) says:
‘ handicapped child – a child who was handicapped in his life whether in Israel or abroad, according to the tests and conditions made by the minister and with the approval of the work and social services committee.’ However, in the appropriate National Insurance Regulations of 1988 a handicapped child is defined as a child ‘dependent on outside help, or needing constant supervision or who has a special disability and needs special medical treatment, and all before he has reached 18 years of age’.
Thus a handicapped child who is over 18 is not eligible to receive maintenance from his parent’s estate.
This was stressed by the Haifa Family Court in 2001 when it rejected applications for maintenance from the deceased’s estate from his two handicapped children aged 23 and 31.
Grandparent Files For Child Maintenance
Grandparent Files For Child Maintenance
Question:
My grandson has been living with me for sometime now. My daughter is divorced and has been extremely ill. The father just could not care less and was ordered to pay maintenance though he rarely does in practice.Can I bring action against the father to cover the cost of my grandson living with me?
Answer:
Yes, in the above circumstances a grandparent with whom a minor grandchild is living could join in a plea with the minor against the father for maintenance and/or for the recovery of costs associated with supporting him.
In July 2002 The Kfar Saba Family Court ordered a father to pay a grandmother temporary maintenance for the two grandchildren who were living with her after they had filed a joint plea against him. Although the mother had custody of the children in their divorce agreement a psychologist’s report presented to a youth court had stated that neither parent was capable of raising the children and that it would be preferable for them to live with the grandmother than being raised completely outside the family. The grandmother was acting as the minor’s guardian although no formal status had been given to her yet.
Child Maintenance and Alternative Medical Treatment
Child Maintenance and Alternative Medical Treatment
Question:
I am divorced. My wife has custody of our child. According to our divorce agreement which was authorized at the family court, and incorporated into a judgment, both my ex and I are equally liable for any exceptional medical expenses not covered by the ordinary health insurance. My wife Is very much into ‘alternative’ health and floods me with bills for homeopathic treatment and medicines . Do I have to pay half the cost of these?
Answer:
No – the divorce agreement obliges the father to contribute to exceptional medical expenses but as no mention is made about alternative medicine being included in this so one can assume that it is confined to conventional medicine. Accordingly, the father is not obliged to pay for half of the alternative treatment or medicines and to subsidize the mother’s preference for alternative medicine.
Note that if the wording of the agreement had been different , and alternative treatments had been specifically mentioned as binding, then the father would be obliged to contribute towards their cost.
Seventeen Year Old Leaves Home & Gets Maintenance Direct
Seventeen Year Old Leaves Home & Gets Maintenance Direct
Question:
Can a high school student who has left home get maintenance paid directly from the non-custodial parent?
Answer:
Yes! In December 2003 Tel Aviv Family Court ordered a father to pay maintenance for his seventeen year old daughter directly to her and not to her mother,who had custody. The daughter child claimed her mother’s behaviour had driven her out of the house and she had rented an apartment out of town with her boyfriend, working in the evenings to support herself , and travelling from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv to study every day. Her mother, she claimed, did not give her maintenance paid by the father. As well as ordering direct payment of maintenance to his daughter, the court ordered the father to pay part of her rent.
Child Maintenance – No Time Limit Stated
Child Maintenance – No Time Limit Stated
Question:
I have a judgment awarding my son, who is in my custody, maintenance. It says nothing about when his father will stop paying this maintenance. How long will my son be entitled to this support?
Answer:
The obligation to pay child maintenance stops automatically when the minor reaches 18, unless the court holds otherwise. The father does not have to apply to court to stop paying maintenance if nothing was said in the judgment about when his obligation ceases.
Child Over 18 and Not Mother Claims His Maintenance
Child Over 18 and Not Mother Claims His Maintenance
Question:
My parents divorced many years ago and my father was ordered by the court to pay child maintenance for me until I reached 18. I am now 18 but have not yet finished high school. My father has stopped paying maintenance for me to my mother. She says she cannot manage without it but I don’t want to file him for it because I am frightened that it would spoil our relationship. Can my mother file my father for maintenance like she did when I was little?
Answer:
No ! The mother of someone who has reached the age of 18 can no longer file for maintenance on his behalf as she did when he was a minor. According to the Legal Capacity & Guardianship Law of 1962 a parent can bring legal proceedings on behalf of a minor due to his/her role as natural guardian. Once the child reaches 18 he is entitled to act on his own account – only if he wishes to do so - but his mother cannot act for him if he does not want to file for maintenance independently.
Maintenance – Between School and Army
Maintenance – Between School and Army
Question:
When the court passed judgment awarding my child maintenance it said that his father would support him until the age of 18 or until he finished high school, whichever came later. When my son finished high school the maintenance stopped . His draft date has been deferred due to medical problems and he still lives with me at home. Can his father be made to pay him maintenance until he goes into the army?
Answer:
Yes – although the son himself and not the parent must file for it ! The Supreme Court set several factual assumptions relevant to claims for maintenance for 18-21 year olds. The relevant one here is that during the period between high school and being drafted into the army the level of financial support of parents towards their child is reduced to two thirds of what is was before the age of 18.
Maintenance During Army Service – Agreement Silent
Maintenance During Army Service – Agreement Silent
Question:
I have a judgment awarding child maintenance. It says nothing about maintenance during the children’s army service. I have heard that nowadays courts set maintenance of a third for children aged between 18 and 21. Will my ‘ex’ have to continue paying some maintenance during the children’s army service?
Answer:
No! If a judgment making a father pay child maintenance is silent regarding financial support during army service then this omission works in the father’s favour . He is not obliged to carry on participating in supporting the child unless the court orders him to do so. The Supreme Court has held , however, that there is a factual assumption that the level of parental financial support during a child’s military service is reduced to a third of what it was previously . This does not give a child an automatic right to a third of the maintenance set beforehand – but is designed to make it easier to file for this.
Maintenance – Son Discharged From Army
Maintenance – Son Discharged From Army
Question:
When my son was conscripted into the army I paid him a third of his existing child maintenance , according to a court judgment. A few months ago he was discharged from the army having been declared unsuitable for service. He hangs around my ‘ex’s’ home all day, living on the few hundred shekels maintenance I pay him. Do I have to pay him any maintenance now that he is no longer in the army?
Answer:
The answer depends on the exact wording of the judgment . If for example the wording connects the payment of a third of the previous maintenance to the son’s compulsory army service when he stops serving in the army – even if he is discharged or released early before his intended period of service is expired - his father’s maintenance obligation to support him will cease, too.
Maintenance – ‘Until The Age of 21’
Maintenance – ‘Until The Age of 21’
Question:
In my divorce agreement I agreed to pay my son a third of his child maintenance until the age of 21. The idea was that I would continue supporting him after school, during his army service. Recently, he was injured in a training accident, and released from the army. Am I bound to pay him maintenance now?
Answer:
Probably yes, because the wording in the judgment here connects the obligation to pay maintenance to the son’s age, not his army service.
Maintenance – Son Discharged From Army Early and Works
Maintenance – Son Discharged From Army Early and Works
Case:
Under a maintenance judgment I am supposed to pay my son a third of his child maintenance until the age of 21. The idea was that I would continue supporting him after school, during his army service. Recently my son was discharged from the army after becoming injured in a car accident. He has now started to work. Am I bound to pay him maintenance now?
Answer:
No, but a father in this situation cannot take the law into his own hands and stop paying his son maintenance. He must make a plea for the cancellation of his maintenance obligation. This is because the judgment ties his maintenance obligation to age – reaching 21 – not the army service. However, because he has started to work this is a ground for stopping his obligation.
Daughter Discharged Early From Army – Loses Maintenance
Daughter Discharged Early From Army – Loses Maintenance
Question:
I am an only daughter and found the whole army experience overwhelming and just couldn’t handle it emotionally, having become very insecure when my parents divorced during my adolescent years. I have now been discharged as being unsuited to serve. According to a court judgment my father is supposed to pay me a third of the maintenance he paid for me before I was conscripted during my service . Because the army discharged me early rather than me refusing to serve, will I still be entitled to maintenance up to the end of my intended army service?
Answer:
No! If the wording in the judgment connects the obligation to pay maintenance to compulsory army service, then the legal basis for claiming it will cease when the army service stops- whether due to early release or because the period of army service was completed. It does not matter if the initiative for the discharge came from the army or the conscript.
Maintenance – Army Finances Studies
Maintenance – Army Finances Studies
Question:
My son is a computer wizard and was accepted on a special army programme whereby he ‘enlists’, it finances his university studies and he signs to serve in the army afterwards. My wife and I divorced several years ago and a court judgment obliged me to pay him maintenance till he reached 18, or finished high school or was conscripted into the army, whichever was later. Will I have to pay him maintenance during his university studies?
Answer:
The answer depends on the exact terms of this programme and the date of his formal conscription in relation to his university studies. The judgment gave three options for the continuation of the maintenance obligation, one being conscription into the army, and stated that maintenance would be paid according to the latest of the three options. According to this programme the prospective student is ‘conscripted’ into the army shortly before he starts his studies. In this case he will already be conscripted when he starts to study and accordingly the father will not be obliged to pay maintenance during his university studies.
Independent Maintenance Plea – Child Reaches Maturity
Independent Maintenance Plea – Child Reaches Maturity
Question:
According to my divorce judgment, my ex-husband is supposed to pay my daugher child maintenence until she is 18. She suffered emotionally from the break-up, she did poorly at school, was held back a year and has not finished school yet, although she is now over 18. When she was 18 her father stopped her maintenance . Can I now file another plea for maintenance for her?
Answer:
No! As a natural guardian and custodian, a mother can file a maintenance plea on her daughter’s behalf when the child is a minor. However,once the daughter reaches 18 she must file her own, independent plea. Once over 18 a child has no automatic right to maintenance.
Maintenance and Visitation – Onus Re Contact on Parent Not Child
Maintenance and Visitation – Onus Re Contact on Parent Not Child
Question:
Can a child successfully sue his father for maintenance during his army service even if there was never any contact between them?
Answer:
Yes , in certain circumstances. For example, in 2003 Tel Aviv District Court rejected an appeal by a father against a judgment ordering him to support his adult son during his army service. The father claimed that he should be exempt from paying maintenance because his son was “rebellious” and would not see him. Rejecting the argument, the District Court held that it was the father who had prevented contact. He divorced his wife during her pregnancy and had taken no steps to make contact with his son during his childhood, and had not filed for visitation. Responsibility for parent-child contact lies with the parent, and not the child, it held. It was not surprising, given the circumstances, that the son had not sought contact with his father after years of alienation. The father was obliged to make the first move, it was held.
Child Maintenance Even When Mother Refused Abortion
Child Maintenance Even When Mother Refused Abortion
Question:
Can a man legally oblige a woman to have an abortion when the pregnancy is unplanned to avoid paying child maintenance?
Answer:
No. The Supreme Court has ruled that a pregnant woman cannot be forced to have an abortion against her wishes to relieve the prospective father of the legal consequences of sex – the financial obligations of fatherhood.
Retroactive Maintenance – Known Sperm Donor
Retroactive Maintenance – Known Sperm Donor
Question:
Several years ago I agreed to do a female friend of mine a ‘favour’. She was single and desperate to have children. She begged me to donate sperm, promising never to make any claims against me , financial or otherwise. We are both Jewish. Now I have just received two pleas – one for paternity and one for child maintenance. I have never had any contact with the child who is supposed to be mine but am willing to co-operate with any medical tests to prove paternity. If I am the father, will I have to pay maintenance and what about back maintenance for the last few years?
Answer:
Once biological paternity is established, or admitted by the alleged father, a Jewish man who impregnates a single woman is bound to support the child according to Jewish law.This cannot be conditioned by any agreement, oral or in writing.
Usually when a court awards maintenance it does so from the date the plea was made. If a mother has decided not to file for several years it is likely that the court will rule that she gave up the child’s right to maintenance for this period.
A case before Jerusalem Family Court in November 2001 illustrates the point. The plaintiff, a single woman, had filed the biological father of her 11 year old twins for child maintenance. The defendant claimed that he donated sperm to the plaintiff at her request and after they had made an oral agreement that she would make no financial claims against him as a father. He voluntarily underwent genetic testing which established paternity.
In its judgment, the court held that the defendant was the twins’ biological father and as such should bear the burden of supporting them according to Jewish law. It rejected the father’s argument that the plaintiff had breached the alleged agreement not to file for child maintenance and that compensation due to him for this should cancel out any maintenance . However it accepted the arguments of the defendant, represented by Adv. Amihoud Borochov, that back maintenance should not be paid for the 10 years before the plea was made, rejecting the applicant’s plea regarding this.
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