Does a divorce issued via text message on a mobile phone, sent in a state of anger, and received by the wife after reconciliation and after the husband had rescinded the decision to divorce, take effect, bearing in mind that this is the third divorce?
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Writing a divorce does not constitute a divorce unless it is accompanied by the intention or verbal pronouncement at the time of writing. So, if you intended divorce when writing the message or verbally pronounced it, then the divorce has occurred, whether the wife received the message or not.
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