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Is the phrase: "If you don't like it, call your family and have them take you" considered an implicit divorce pronouncement?

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The wordings of divorce are divided into explicit and allusive. Explicit wordings, such as "divorce" and its derivatives, cause divorce to occur whether the husband intended it or not. As for allusive wordings, such as the husband saying: "Get out" or "Go back to your family," divorce does not occur by them except with intention, because they can carry other meanings.

And a man's statement to his wife: "Call your family and have them take you" is considered among the allusive wordings of divorce, so divorce does not occur by it unless the husband intended it. If the husband suspends divorce upon a condition, divorce does not occur unless the condition is met and there is an intention for divorce.

In this case, divorce does not occur unless two conditions are met: First: that the husband intended divorce with this wording. Second: that the wife contacts her family and they take her. If the intention is not present or the wife does not contact her family, then divorce does not occur.

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