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If a woman comes to court and presents a Get with which her husband divorced her. Then she wants him to pay the amount of the Ketubah. However, she does not have the Ketubah document itself, claiming that it was lost. Normally, she should not be able to collect anybody who wants to collect a payment should present a loan document (in this case it is the Ketubah). If it is lost, his money is lost.
However, here - since the Ketubah is the enactment of the court - it has the same power as though the document was present, and so she can collect the money. Her former husband's claim that he paid the Ketubah is not believed. If he did, they should have torn the Get, given him her Ketubah or the payment receipt.
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