Rabbinical Court Advocate, Rachel Levmore, is the coordinator for Iggun and Get-refusal for the Council of Young Israel  Rabbis in Israel and the Jewish Agency.  She reviews the halakhic problems with get-refusal and the implementation of prenuptial agreements in the rabbinic court system in Israel today.   She also gives an extensive overview of the existing literature on the topic, especially within the Israeli court system.

Despite the biblical edict that two witnesses are required to bring testimony for evidence to be considered valid in court (Deut. 9:15), the Rabbis were lenient when it came to releasing an agunah.  Yet, according to Shiloh, “The Sages would release a woman from the state of agunah even on the basis of circumstantial evidence, and would even allow the testimony of a child, a woman, a relative, a concerned party, and even of a non-Jew speaking in good faith.  Even the agunah herself could attest to being a widow if she was the only one who saw her husband killed” (Maimonides, Hilkhot Gerushin, ch. 13).  Yoel Shiloh discusses the sources,  the justification for this leniency, and the implications in the contemporary context.