Is the divorce considered valid in the aforementioned situation, where the court session was missed and the husband was not in the country, and the divorce was revocable, and no mention was made of alimony or custody of the infant daughter?
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If the husband utters the divorce or writes it with the intention of effecting it, then it has occurred. Its occurrence is not prevented by the wife's ignorance of it or by its not being documented in the divorce paper with details such as the presence of a female child or maintenance. However, the right of the female child to maintenance and the wife's right to it during the waiting period (iddah) are established. The مرجع (point of reference/authority) for disputes regarding maintenance or custody is the Sharia court.
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