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Case: HCJ 9812/17 Plonit v. High Rabbinic Court, et.al.
May 29, 2018
Read High Court of Justice Decision 9812/17
In 2016, the rabbinic court put a child on a mamzer backlist when his mother sued her ex-husband for the support of another child.
In 2017, CWJ petitioned the Court to declare that rabbinic courts have no jurisdiction to determine the mamzer status of the child at hand, or any minor. CWJ argued that minors, by definition, have not asked to marry or divorce (and may never do so). Rabbinic courts only have jurisdiction over matters of marriage and divorce.
The Court remanded the case to the rabbinic court to reevaluate its stigmatization of children.
In 2018, the Court dismissed the case after the rabbinic court declared that the child in this case was no longer on the blacklist (without resolving the issue of principle).