The Rabbinical Courts expressed their support for the new ruling by the Supreme Court which stated that divorcees with joint custody of their children will pay child support in accordance with their income.
The head of the Jerusalem Rabbinical court, Rabbi Eliyahu Aberjil, implemented the same reasoning in a series of rulings in which he dismissed the claims of women earning good salaries to increase child support and accepted the claims of males lacking financial ability who wished to decrease child support.
Dr. Yoav Mazah, director of the Research Institute for Family,Equality and Law at the Ono academic center, says that the Supreme Court ruling is based on halakhah, which takes into account the income of mothers and does not leave the fathers to starve when they have little income.
The director of the rabbinical courts Rabbi Shimon Jacoby said that the new ruling would ease the divorce procedures between couples, as previously one of the factors for refusal to divorce was the high child support payments issued by secular courts.