Nullification of Divorce: A Comparative Jurisprudential Study in Light of the Jordanian Personal Status Law

Abstract

This study aims to clarify an important issue in Islamic jurisprudence and the Jordanian Personal Status Law, namely the issue of the “resetting (demolition) of the divorce count.” The researcher relied on the preferential (comparative) methodological approach to examine the differing opinions of jurists. The study concluded that if a husband divorces his wife and she subsequently marries another man, then returns to her first husband, she returns through a new marriage contract with a fresh count of three divorces, without considering the divorces previously issued or the number remaining from the earlier marriage.