Does a divorce occur if a husband tells his wife "by three" in response to her saying, "You will divorce me" if you marry another, when he said it jokingly?
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Divorce does not occur except through an explicit pronouncement or an implicit expression. An implicit expression does not effectuate divorce unless accompanied by the intention to bring it about. What you uttered was merely a promise, and divorce does not occur until it is enacted.
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