E-Mail Divorce Ruled Unlawful In Alexandria Court

Washington, DC (news agencies) - In Islam, when a man utters the words "I divorce you" three times, then he is divorced according to family law. However, the New York Times reported that a court in Alexandria, Egypt has ruled that uttering the same statement in a written e-mail message cannot bring divorce between a man and his wife. This issue recently came about in a case that involved a woman who remarried after receiving an e-mail divorce message from her first husband, who after the fact, changed his mind and demanded that she come back to him. The judge in the Alexandria court, after spending time deciding the proper ruling for this case, eventually ruled that Islam does not accept electronic documents as evidence for divorce. Source: http://www.islam-online.net/iol-english/dowalia/news-2000-June-03/topnews...