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Two legal methods dissolve a marriage: divorce<\/a> and annulment. An annulment differs from a divorce in that when a couple annuls a marriage, the marriage never happened.\u00a0<\/p>\nGrounds for an annulment vary by jurisdiction, but they may include: concealment, fraud, inability (or refusal) to engage in sexual relations or serious misunderstanding.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In California, a marriage is never considered legal if it is bigamous, with one partner already being married to someone else, or incestuous, when the parties are close blood relatives. <\/p>\n
A case of concealment may involve a spouse hiding a prior criminal record, a drug addiction or a sexually transmitted disease. Fraud could involve misrepresenting an unmarried status or failing to disclose an inability to have children. Misunderstanding may revolve around each person\u2019s idea of a lifestyle or the desire to have children.<\/p>\n
The most famous contemporary example of an annulment is the January 4, 2004 marriage of Britney Spears to (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two legal methods dissolve a marriage: divorce and annulment. An annulment differs from a divorce in that when a couple annuls a marriage, the marriage never happened.\u00a0 Grounds for an annulment vary by jurisdiction, but they may include: concealment, fraud,…<\/span><\/p>\n