Is there a default clause in the decree? That if no response after X amount of time it goes through as stipulated?

I am putting that in mine, because I know how stbxw works (she even says she's spacey and all over the place mentally).

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus

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