Legal document: BL OR 6356.1–16

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Legal record (#44) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 11r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated 16 Iyyar 5443 AM, which is 1683 CE. (Document #44) Divorce, alimony, and child custody agreement between Eliyahu חלפתא/חלפקא(?) and Comfrada aka Perla bt. Moshe Simḥon. Comfrada receives the full valuation of payments from her ketubba and secures initial custody of her daughter. Eliyahu agrees to make yearly payments of 120 medin to Comfrada in order to support the child–unless she later decides to live with her father instead of her mother. In the latter scenario, Comfrada agrees to deliver a small list of jewelry to her ex-husband (items intended for her daughter's dowry). The later lines lay out arrangements for ownership of potential dowry items in the event that the divorced couple's daughter dies before marriage. There is also mention of Yaʿaqov Saragosi's involvement in the arrangements: he holds five mithqal of gold that is intended for the unnamed daughter's potential dowry. This is likely the same Yaʿaqov Saragosi who appears in document #40 of the court register (PGPID 40918), where he is also involved in the transfer of marital wealth on behalf of a bride to whom he does share any direct familial relation (unless their family ties were not noted by the court scribe in either case). MCD.