2006-12-14 18:55:09 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
Dissolution of a LEGAL marriage by a decree of divorce is called Divorce. Annulment of a VOIDABLE marriage by a decree of nullity is annulment. Now what is a voidable marriage? Any marriage that would not have solemnised if the grounds due to which it has become voidable had been known to the person who moves the court with the petition for the annulment of such a marriage. Such grounds can be impotency of the other party at the till of marriage or other party was an idiot or a lunatic, or the consent of the aggrieved party for the marriage was taken with force or fraud,or the other party was pregnant by someone other than the aggrieved party . In simple words we can say such a marriage per say was wrongly solemnised had these facts known it would not have taken place. This is the legal difference between Divorce & Annulment.
2006-12-15 00:11:24 · answer #1 · answered by bisexualmale s 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it can vary state to state, but the idea is that i divorce acknowledges that there was a union between 2 people and it was broken off, and separtions of assets and custody (if any were determined by a court) an anullment is basicly a "do over" it is like it never happened in the first place. there is usually a time limit, commonly 48 hrs in which you can get a marriage anulled. usually you have to prove that you were not "clear of mind" or where "thrust into an arrangement against your will.
2006-12-14 19:01:19 · answer #2 · answered by armyryan77 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Partly, it depends upon which state you're seeking either. Basically, an annulment "erases the marriage" legally, as if you were never married. There are various reasons one might be granted. If the marriage was never consummated is one reason, but again, your state's laws governing an annulment/divorce should be checked. If the law considers a marriage to have existed, then to dissolve it, you need to get a divorce. Probably most people are in this situation when they want out, so to speak. Annulment and divorce are not the same thing. I don't know if this helps you or not, but usually people have to seek a divorce once they've married.
2006-12-14 19:08:22 · answer #3 · answered by rougepapillion 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
An annulment rather wipes the marriage away as though it by no skill incredibly exsited because of the fact it legally by no skill did and/or there became fraud on the area of one of the two events. The rules selection from state, yet in many cases the grounds for annulment contain issues like kinship of the spouses (aunt and nephew, cousins, etc.), no longer legally divorced from a prior marriage, one better half understanding that he/she became terminally ill earlier the marriage and not telling the different better half, etc. the situation approximately annulment is that, although that's in many cases greater fee-effective and quicker, that's plenty greater good to discover a reason that your marriage would be allowed to be legally annuled. additionally, each little thing else bearing directly to the marriage would be performed only because it could in a divorce (property distribution, baby custody, etc.). With divorce, the marriage nevertheless legally existed, however the relationship ended for regardless of reason(s). The grounds for divorce additionally selection from state to state. the situation it is maximum elementary in each and each state is that, the greater words in the divorce which you the two agree on among yourselves, the greater fee-effective and much less perplexing that's. good success, Hon, and encompass your self with people who love you.
2016-12-18 13:50:47 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Defined; annulment means a judicial or ecclesiastical pronouncement declaring a marriage invalid and divorce means the action or an instance of legally dissolving a marriage. Basically an annulment means the marriage never existed and a divorce shows that there was once a legal marriage. At least that's the way I understood it to be.
2006-12-14 19:07:40 · answer #5 · answered by SoCalGal75 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Divorce is the legal dissolution of a marriage. It is the breaking up of the marriage and a declaration that the formerly married couple is now to be considered single.
Annulment is a declaration that there never was a marriage in the first place. It is a legal fiction that makes a legal declaration that today, the "marriage" that took place yesterday wasn't valid and the parties were never really married.
2006-12-14 19:01:45 · answer #6 · answered by judgebill 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure myself, but i think that the difference in anullment is that your saying the marriage was not legal or saying it never really happened because of this or that...
2006-12-14 19:01:30 · answer #7 · answered by Vertigo addict 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
divorce is when people been together a while and they have things they have got together that has to be split.. and anullment is something that is done if you just got married within a very very short time and you know you shouldnt of. a judge give you an anullment so you have nothing to split or lose. its as if youve never been married before.. she would part way with her maiden name back..
2006-12-14 19:01:04 · answer #8 · answered by Kat 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
An annulment is a rewind and erase. So the marriage never occurred. While a divorce acknowledges the marriage and then ends it.
There are some different consequences to a marriage, such as a divorce settlement.
2006-12-14 18:59:38 · answer #9 · answered by feanor 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
anullment means marriage never happened.
divorce means the marriage was there all right, but got terminated
2006-12-15 00:27:43 · answer #10 · answered by Bhanupriya 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋