Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh

 

In the Name of Allah, the All-Merciful, the Mercy-Giving

 

 All praise is due to Allah. Peace and blessings be upon His Messenger Muhammad.

 

Only if the husband was really in conscious and intending ending the marriage as a final choice and decision that I consider divorce in text or phone valid. In times of fast responses via text and heated argument via phones, I do not see divorce and ending family relations valid via text or phone unless it was really meant to as a decision and these means were the only means available to notify the wife. But in heated arguments on phones or exchanged texts that can go fast and uncontrolled via text I do not see ending a family like that at all.

Divorce via documents is an official business that courts use and notary public people so yes, written documentation is a responsible act of ending marriage and is valid original or real copies.

 

If divorce happens before real marriage the girl gets half of the dowry Mahr and no Iddah period on her she can remarry right away.

 

Almighty Allah knows best.