Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 458

The rights and prohibitions arising from divorce. Either spouse's denial of it after its occurrence. Not to be credited. - An acknowledgment of divorce, even if false, effects divorce judicially, not religiously. - An acknowledgment is conclusive evidence against the acknowledging party. It may not be retracted. The reason: there is no denial after acknowledgment. - The husband's pronouncement of divorce in explicit, immediate terms. Its effect. Its ruling takes effect without examining its reasons - 407 - Personal Status and motives. Its condition. He must be free from impairments, including anger. The reason: anger has no effect on verbal dispositions, including divorce, unless it prevents the person from fully forming his intention, in which case it does not take effect. The reason: the saying of the Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, (There is no divorce in a state of closure). - Understanding the facts, assessing the evidence, accepting what is reassuring thereof and discarding the remainder, the extent to which a state of anger existed at divorce, and drawing inferences. Within the authority of the court of merits. The condition thereof. An example concerning pronouncement of divorce by mobile telephone.