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What law will apply to a maintenance plea I want to file against my estranged husband, a non-Jewish American, whom I met in the U.S.A., and married in a civil ceremony in Los Vegas, but split up from immediately after the wedding,and returned to Israel shortly afterwards?

Where you are filing your husband for maintenance, in a family court in Israel, and there is no common place of residence following the marriage ,and never was- as in your case - the applicable law will be that of the place where the person owing maintenance (your husband)  lives abroad. This is stated very clearly in the 1959 Family Law (Maintenance) Amendment Act.