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Is a husband's request for his wife to return to her family's home with her belongings, in the context of a dispute and anger, considered a form of divorce?

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The wife's demand to take her belongings and return to her family is not an explicit divorce, but rather an equivocal expression (kinayah). Equivocal expressions do not effect a divorce unless the husband intends it. If the husband did not intend to effect a divorce with these words, then no divorce has occurred, even if he was in a state of anger.

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