It is an odd fact about the Ketubah marriage document that sometimes it is written and signed before the actual marriage. If the שטר/document is dated in the day and the wedding takes place at night, the שטר/document is a שטר מוקדם/predated document.
One way that it might be OK is the fact that a קניין סודר acquisition made by handing over a handkerchief . So perhaps the obligations start right then and there even though the actual marriage does not take place until the evening.
The trouble is what makes the obligations is the marriage.
Otherwise a שטר מוקדם [document that has a date before the actual acquisition was made.] is straight forward not valid.
[This I think happens in the summer when days are long and the wedding might be called for 7:30 P.M., but then the wedding does not take place until an hour later. In NY 730 is still daytime.
One way to get out of this problem is to in fact have the date on the document the next day [which starts at night]. Also an important fact to know is that a כתב יד [hand written] obligates. That is even if the actual Ketubah is not valid because of the above mentioned problem, one can always just write on any scrap of paper, that he is obligated to pay the מאתיים זוז [the two hundred zuz] to his wife and have the date. This in fact seems a lot better than a Ketubah written by someone else because of a number of problems that exist in the regular document. Another thing might be simply to write the regular document himself. [or just print the regular version and put in the names by your own handwriting.]
The fact that a כתב יד [hand written by the person himself] is much better that a שטר written by a scribe also is relevant to Gitin.
One way that it might be OK is the fact that a קניין סודר acquisition made by handing over a handkerchief . So perhaps the obligations start right then and there even though the actual marriage does not take place until the evening.
The trouble is what makes the obligations is the marriage.
Otherwise a שטר מוקדם [document that has a date before the actual acquisition was made.] is straight forward not valid.
[This I think happens in the summer when days are long and the wedding might be called for 7:30 P.M., but then the wedding does not take place until an hour later. In NY 730 is still daytime.
One way to get out of this problem is to in fact have the date on the document the next day [which starts at night]. Also an important fact to know is that a כתב יד [hand written] obligates. That is even if the actual Ketubah is not valid because of the above mentioned problem, one can always just write on any scrap of paper, that he is obligated to pay the מאתיים זוז [the two hundred zuz] to his wife and have the date. This in fact seems a lot better than a Ketubah written by someone else because of a number of problems that exist in the regular document. Another thing might be simply to write the regular document himself. [or just print the regular version and put in the names by your own handwriting.]
The fact that a כתב יד [hand written by the person himself] is much better that a שטר written by a scribe also is relevant to Gitin.
