Does a divorce occur if the wife returns to her family after the husband threatens to divorce her?

A husband does not have the right to prevent his wife from visiting her family without a legitimate Shar'i justification, because doing so constitutes cutting off kinship ties, which is forbidden in Islam. If the husband swears an oath of divorce that his wife will be divorced if she goes to her family, then divorce occurs when she goes to them, according to the majority of scholars. The wife's presence during the oath is not a condition. However, if what he uttered was merely a threat of divorce, then divorce does not occur simply by her visit.