marriage annulment
Legally erased wedding
A marriage annulment is a legal declaration that a marriage was never valid, as opposed to a divorce, which ends a valid marriage.
Grounds typically include fraud, bigamy, incapacity, or failure to consummate.
An annulled marriage is treated as though it never existed: She sought an annulment after discovering he was already married.
- canon lawReligious institutional regulations
- Catholic ChurchPope-led Christian denomination
- fraudIntentional criminal trickery
- mental incapacityInability to reason adequately
- family lawJurisprudence of households
bigamy · impotence · coercion · stigma · duress · family dynamics · fresh start · misrepresentation · witness testimony · null and void · lack of consent · marital rights · church wedding · religious doctrine · pastoral counseling · excommunication · court ruling · postnuptial agreement
- Islamic Lawsharia, Sharia, Shariah, Islamic law, fatwa
- church lawcanon law, church court, papal bull, papal bulls, papal decree
- canon lawchurch law, canonist, tribunal, canons, church court
- Catholic ChurchVatican, papacy, cardinals, popes, papal
- court approvalruling, order, judgment, decree, sanction
- Islamic Weddingbride, groom, witnesses, officiant, qadi
marriage annulmentmarriage
Formal union between partners
wedding · matrimony · marriage ceremony · getting married · marital union
marriage, annulment, married, marrying, marriageable, unmarried, remarry, remarriage, intermarriage