The legal validity of immediate divorce when the writer claims subsequent conditional intent.

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If the writer claims he wrote the initial phrase intending it to be conditional later, the juristic opinion suggests the wife is not divorced before the condition occurs, although the husband is accountable to God (his intent is binding religiously). Whether this claim is accepted in a court of law is subject to two differing opinions among our colleagues. This hinges on the legal standing of a person who says, 'You are divorced,' and immediately retracts by stating he intended to suspend it upon a condition.