Matheu D. Nunn Secures Appellate Victory In a Matter That Involved a Jewish Get, Interpretation of a Ketubah, and a Compelled Post-Judgment Arbitration
February 16, 2023Partner Matheu D. Nunn, who Co-Chairs the Firm’s Family Law Practice and General Appellate Practice, scored an important win for his client in Kiejdan v. Kiejdan, A-002945-20 (App. Div. February 16, 2023), a case involving a Jewish Get, the parties’ Ketubah, and court-ordered post-judgment arbitration.
Nunn’s client, an Orthodox Jewish man, was forced, post-judgment, by a trial court judge to return to the arbitrator who decided the underlying divorce. Nunn successfully argued that the arbitration contract did not contemplate or permit post-judgment proceedings before the arbitrator. Accordingly, as Nunn successfully argued, the trial court did not have the authority to compel a post-judgment arbitration regarding the parties’ Ketubah and a Get. After hearing oral argument, the Appellate Division reversed the trial court decision. Nunn was assisted on the brief by Bonnie C. Frost and Jessie M. Mills.
