Divorce


Resolution Adopted by the CCAR

DIVORCE

Digests of resolutions adopted by the

Central Conference of American Rabbis

between 1889 and 1974

The CCAR looks with favor upon the efforts of many state legislatures to

revise and

improve their statutes concerning divorce.

In view of the millennial Jewish experience in family law, and in the part of

our

tradition that deals with divorce, we strongly oppose all adversary

procedures, acts

of collusion, and the primary concern with the financial settlement.

Out of deep reverence for the individual and because of our knowledge of

Jewish family

values we would vigorously emphasize:

  • More thorough efforts toward reconciliation.

  • The use of counseling, social work, and psychiatry by the courts in the

    most helpful

    way possible.

    We urge a thorough revision of state divorce laws to make them more rational,

    just,

    and humane under all circumstances. (1967, p. 103)

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