Does a divorce occur if a man tells his wife, "Take your clothes and go to your family," intending thereby a divorce, and then they reconcile and she returns to him, and then he later learns about allusive divorce pronouncements and doubts whether the divorce occurred?
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The man's divorce did not occur with that phrase, because it is not explicit, and he did not intend to effect it with it. Merely intending or resolving to divorce in the future does not bring about a divorce.
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