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In a suit for specific performance, an Illinois appellate court ordered the husband to pay the wife's attorney's fees as a sanction for persistently raising an objection in every proceeding that the court deemed "baseless" in the wife's effort to have him ordered to honor his obligations in their ketubah (or Jewish marriage contract) he signed during the marriage ceremony to give the wife a get (a Jewish divorce). Schneider v. Schneider, 945 N.E.2d 650 (IU. App. 2011), explained that the ketubah was a two-page document, one page written in Aramaic and the other an English translation. It provided that,
The said bridegroom made the following declaration to his bride:
Be thou my wife according to the law of Moses and Israel. I faithfully promise that I will be a true husband unto thee; I will honor and cherish thee; I will work for thee; I will protect and support thee and will provide all that is necessary for thy due sustenance as it beseemeth a Jewish husband to do. I also take upon...