annulment is just another word for divorce.?

Question

agree or disagree?

Answer 1

Disagree. Because it isn't, its something else.

Answer 2

Yes, people say that divorce is ending marriage, but annulment means ending a marriage too! the only difference is the length of time. When you get a divorce, that means you have been married to that person for a while. When you get an annulment, you have only been married to that person for less than a year. Any marriage that only withstand for less than a year, is considered to be an annulment. Marriages that last longer than a year, is considered to be a divorce. Also, an annulment is a lot cheaper than a divorce. An annulment only cost a couple hundreds of dollars, cause you were not with your spouse for long, but divorce is a more pricier motion to go through. It can cost you half of everything you own, and it takes longer.

Answer 3

No they are quite different.
A marriage annulment is a legal procedure that dissolves a couple's marital status by establishing that a valid marriage never existed. In effect, it nullifies the marriage, returning the parties to their prior single status. There certain grounds that must be met for marriage annulment. An annulment means that there is no record of marriage
Divorce on the other hand is a dissolving of the union on the grounds of irreconcilable break down in the marriage.
Settlements are normally part of a divorce but not so in the case of an annulment

Answer 4

Disagree an annulment is basically going in front of a judge and having them say you were never marrried in the first place that a marriage between the two people never existed.

A divorce is still on record that at one time you were married to that person.

Answer 5

In some states i think you can only get an annulment when you've been married 30 days or less or the marriage was fraud. An annulment, legally speaking, is completely and totally different from divorce. So when you tell people your getting divorced, its just not true if the marriage was fraud, etc. The marriage never really existed in the first place so it can't be divorce.

Answer 6

Yes in a since it is another word for divorce, if a couple has been married for less then 6 mos, they can get what they call a annulment, if the couple has been married for 1 yr or more, they will get a divorce through a lawyer and courts, so it is almost the same thing, just the timing is different, so I guess I would have to say I agree.

Answer 7

In the legal sense, annulment means the marriage, effectively, didn't happen. No alimony, etc.
divorce means the marriage lasted for some time, and now one or both want to end it. There is normally a legal division of property, child custody and support, other issues.

In the Catholic Church, annulment is the Church's recognition that the marriage is dissolved and the parties are allowed to remarry and still be in good standing with the Church/God.

Answer 8

I disagree, because annulment the invalidation of a marriage, as for nonconsummation, effected by means of a declaration stating that the marriage was never valid. While, divorce is the legal dissolution of a marriage over a period of time. So, they are different.

Answer 9

Legally, I'd have to disagree. A divorce means that you are ending a marriage.

An annulment means the marriage was not valid and it is 'erased' - for lack of a better word.

Answer 10

I agree. And I'm a Catholic Christian.

God hates divorce. God only gave guidelines for divorce because of the hardness of people's hearts.
Biblical reasons:
- a spouse commits adultery against the other
- a believer marries an unbeliever, and then the unbeliever leaves the believer (also known as abandonment)
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"Annulment" allows something which is effectively a divorce even though the biblical grounds for divorce are not met. For example, the Bible does not classify spousal abuse and child abuse as grounds for divorce. Rather, they are grounds for temporary separation. Human laws are the ones that consider these grounds for divorce. However, annulment (as redefined by Francis) includes these grounds.

Answer 11

Disagree