legal annulment
Voiding a union
Legal annulment is a court ruling that a marriage was never valid from the start—distinct from divorce, which ends a valid marriage.
Grounds include fraud, bigamy, incapacity, or failure to consummate.
An annulled marriage is treated as though it never existed: She sought an annulment rather than a divorce for religious reasons.
- clean breakComplete, uncomplicated severance
- bigamyIllegal second marriage
- marriage licenseLegal authorization to wed
- void ab initioInvalid from inception
- breach of contractFailure to perform agreed duties
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Confirming truth or accuracy
ratification · affirmation · confirmation · legitimization · authentication
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Formal union between partners
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Legal end of matrimony
dissolution · legal dissolution · termination · legal separation
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