The Agreement for Mutual Respect is a prenuptial agreement for the prevention of get-refusal*. The Agreement anchors modern day’s philosophy of partnership and mutual respect in the context of Jewish law, thus it has been signed and ratified by thousands of couples in Israel.
The signing of prenuptial agreements for the prevention of Get-Refusal has been recommended by the many Rabbinic authorities. It is included in the Resolutions of the Rabbinical Council of America which were adopted in June 1993, entitled “In the Matter of Prenuptial Agreements.”
A year later, in 1994, “The Endorsement of Prenuptial Agreements” was reaffirmed.
Furthermore, the leading Roshei Yeshiva of Yeshiva University issued “A Message to Our Rabbinic Colleagues and Students” in 1999, strongly urging:
“rabbis to counsel and encourage marrying couples to sign such an agreement. The increased utilization of prenuptial agreements is a critical step in purging our community of the distressful problem of the modern-day Aguna and enabling men and women to remarry without restriction.”
In May 2006, the Rabbinical Council of America once again reaffirmed its previous resolutions, declaring “that no rabbi should officiate at a wedding where a proper prenuptial agreement on get has not been executed”.
A decade later in a 2016 resolution, the Rabbinical Council of America required every member rabbi to see to it that in every marriage where he officiates a prenuptial agreement for the prevention of get-refusal is signed: