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How to Improve your Rating

A beit din can improve performance in the areas rated. This includes minimizing response time, respectful treatment of clients, consistent and published pricing, and not allowing financial extortion or Get abuse (such extorting a spouse by demanding money or the relinquishing of rights) in the beit din.

Anecdotal research has shown that having female support staff present during court proceedings has been helpful and positive to the process. We encourage all batei din to have a female support person during the proceedings.

Local nonprofit organizations may be able to assist in providing support volunteers to attend hearings and get ceremonies

Participate in Training

Participation in training in areas around domestic abuse (financial, sexual, physical, emotional), addiction, and coercive control can improve the judges understanding of the couple and issues before them. We will help arrange training through our partner organizations.

Participating in this training will give a beit din an automatic rating boost and badge. Upon completion of training a badge will be featured on the Beit Din’s page.

Additional training will result in an even higher rating and more badges which will in turn boost trust and traffic in the beit din.

Rate My Beit Din Badges

These badges represent training or commitments that a beit din can take to improve its service to the community and clients. We are here to help and are happy to arrange these for you. Contact us today for more information.

Self Improvement Badges

Independent Evaluation

This beit din sends a survey to clients asking them to evaluate their experience and suggest improvements. It reads and commits to considering the suggestions.

Response Time Commitment

This beit din commits to responding to emails and calls within 72 hours

What to expect

This beit din is committed to making the process of receiving a divorce transparent by spelling out the steps of the process as well as the steps of the actual ritual of the Get to clients.

Support System

This beit din offers a supportive person of the same gender to accompany parties through the divorce process (Din Torah, Get giving ritual)

Attention to Detail

This beit din recognizes the sensitive nature of the process and things on hand like tissues, and water to drink. The beit din offered breaks during emotional moments, and was sensitive to details such as asking a woman what last name she prefers they use.

Follow Up

This beit din reaches out after the divorce process is completed to check in on clients’ wellbeing.

Committed to Transparency

This beit din keeps and shares its number of cases, average length it takes to resolve a case, how many seruvim it orders and more.

Training Badges

Domestic Violence Training

This beit din has received training on domestic violence, how it might present in the beit din, and how to best work with survivors

Addiction/Gambling Training

This beit din has attended training on the challenges our community faces regarding addiction in all of its forms and how it might present itself at the Beit Din.

Gender Bias Training

This beit din has taken time to attend training on the struggles women face as they stand before a beit din. The Dayanim are committed to learning the unique challenges that religious women face in this very male space. We can connect you with a training provider in your area.

Halachic Ways to End Marriage

This beit din has taken a course in understanding various ways Jewish marriage can be ended beyond the giving of the Get when the need is great.

Recognizing Get Abuse

This beit din has received Get refusal training and recognizes that demanding a price or conditions in exchange for a Get is abuse and does not allow this to occur in its court. This includes insisting custody and finances are sorted before giving the Get.

Works with Advocate Organizations

This beit din works with organizations that advocate for people navigating the divorce process. The beit din communicates freely and regularly with these organizations as well as partners with them to solve cases.

More is More

This beit din thinks creatively and strategically, is proactive in resolving cases and looks for solutions and ideas to free women and men being refused a Get.

Best Practices

We recommend the following as best practices to follow. Please feel free to be in touch with us for a better understanding or more thorough explanation of any of the items below. We are here to assist you.

Before the Get:

Beit din has a clear and thorough website making it easy to understand the process of applying for and giving/receiving a Get. This includes:
- contact information for the offices
- a link to the Get application clearly placed on the website and attached in preliminary emails about beginning the Get process
- information on pricing for a Get and a Din Torah
- timeline of divorce process including steps going forward and approximate estimation of how long the process takes
- Beit Din’s policy on Get abuse including whether or not one can push off a Get until civil and/or family proceedings conclude
- Listing of the Dayanim who will be involved in the case
Beit Din responds to clients within 48 hours of receiving contact
Beit Din communicates using respectful and professional language
Beit Din engages with advocate organizations
Beit Din informs clients of updates or changes in the case (including things like a change in which Dayan is handling the case)
Beit Din does not allow or tolerate either party using financial incentives or disincentives in relation to the Get
Beit Din does not allow or tolerate either party connecting custody to the Get

The Giving of the Get:

The Beit Din should reach out to both parties explaining the steps of the giving of the Get, either over the phone or laid out clearly in an email
The Beit Din must ask the woman which last name she would like to be addressed by
In a case of domestic abuse, the Beit Din takes the proper steps to ensure that both parties feel safe and comfortable in the room together or if they are legally allowed to be in the room together. If not, a shaliach should be arranged
Payment should not be requested immediately before the ceremony or immediately after. Payment details (credit card number or information on who is paying for the Get) should be discussed on any day before the Get is given or a few days after the Get has been given.
Both parties must be explicitly told that they are entitled to bringing support with them for the ceremony
There should never be fewer than two women in the room when a Get is given
Tissues and water should be placed near both parties during the ceremony. No one should have to ask for a tissue as they cry.
The Beit Din should only use sensitive language during the ceremony and make jokes with caution at appropriate times. For instance, forums should avoid jokes, references to remarriage, or other potentially offensive comments.
Get certificates should be mailed within two weeks of the ceremony
Beit Din should follow up by phone or email to check in 3 or 6 months after the ceremony, especially in difficult cases

Schedule a Consultation

Schedule a confidential consultation to share your experience with divorce or the Beit Din process. Your feedback is essential in improving the system and supporting others.

Batei Din, Work with Us – Improve Your Rating!