Post by Queen of the Damned on Jul 5, 2010 12:09:25 GMT -5
Divorce judge orders wall for warring Brooklyn couple
By EDMUND DeMARCHE
Last Updated: 5:52 AM, July 5, 2010
Posted: 3:30 AM, July 5, 2010
He spitefully blows out her Shabbos candles.
She hides his medications and makes him sleep in the dining room.
Can this Orthodox Jewish marriage be saved?
Probably not -- but a wall down the middle of the Williamsburg couple's house is a good idea regardless, a Brooklyn judge has ruled.
Doing his best King Solomon imitation, Judge Eric Prus on Thursday ordered feuding couple Pinchs and Nechama Gold to split their 3,000-square-foot home in half as they go through a bitter divorce.
The Golds have two weeks to agree on where the wall should go -- or the court will decide for them.
"They've been living like there was a wall up for two years now," said Abe Konstam, an attorney for Pinchs.
"This just helps them completely avoid each other."
The Golds married 21 years ago, but after years of marital strife, the wife, who says her husband verbally abuses her and their five children, just wants him to pack his bags.
She claims he even spitefully blows out their Shabbos candles.
Pinchs denies those allegations.
"If she's so religious, why does she refuse to get divorced the right way -- in a beth din," he said, referring to the religious tribunal that grants Jewish divorces.
Pinchs, meanwhile, claims Nechama hides his heart medications. She has also banished him from the bedroom, he claims, forcing him to sleep for two years in their dining room.
On May 18, her lawyer asked the court for temporary exclusive occupancy.
The judge's response takes a more divide-and-conquer approach to the hostilities.
"It's a large house, so I think we can come up with some sort of agreement," conceded Nechama's lawyer, Brian Perskin.
"But she wants him out."
The plans Pinchs drew up keeps his wife and children in the rooms they are in now.
It also allots her about 700 more square feet because the kids will live with her.
"This could be called the Divorce Wall," said Rabbi Mendel Gold, Pinchs' brother.
"It could probably even help healthy couples."
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