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Does divorce take effect with the words "I don't want you" if divorce was intended thereby, or does the ruling differ based on the speaker's intention?

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If a person, by an allusive divorce, intended to express a desire for it without enacting it, their divorce does not take effect. However, if they intended to create a divorce by the allusion, then it takes effect. The allusive divorce requires the intention to enact the divorce. There has been disagreement regarding whether the mentioned phrase is an allusive divorce, and the preponderant opinion is that it is an allusion by which divorce takes effect if intended.

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