An ultra-Orthodox woman living in Samaria sued her ex-husband for 100,000 shekels in alimony, which she claims was not paid to her.
Following the lawsuit, the woman opened a debt enforcement case against her ex-husband, seized his salary, and began aggressive debt collection efforts, including an arrest warrant, even though the father claims that for the past four years she has not been raising their son at all.
According to the Channel 7 report, the couple, originally national religious, divorced several years ago due to the wife's conversion to Haredi. Their son, who had studied in a national religious setting in central Israel until their divorce, moved with his mother to a settlement in Samaria and was transferred to an ultra-Orthodox educational setting - where he suffered severe social isolation.
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When he reached adulthood and was supposed to move to middle school, the boy refused to continue in an ultra-Orthodox educational setting. With his mother's consent, he moved to live in his father's house in central Israel, where he also enrolled in a national religious youth educational setting.
About three years later, the father was surprised to receive a notice of a large debt from the bailiff. To his astonishment, it turned out that his wife had garnished his salary, his bank account, and even sought his arrest, all because he had not paid her child support payments in recent years.
The father contacted an attorney, who submitted a request to the Enforcement Bureau claiming "I defaulted," according to which he is not obligated to pay child support from the day his son moved in with him.
The bailiff's registrar determined that the stay of collection proceedings would only take effect after the father paid the mother 40,000 NIS. The father did not agree and submitted an urgent request to the Rabbinical Court in Petah Tikva through his lawyer.
After being convinced that during the entire aforementioned period the mother did not raise the child at all, and was in fact demanding money that she was not entitled to, the rabbinical court judges exempted the husband from the obligation to pay child support.
The lawyer filed a motion to formally transfer custody of the child to the father.
