What Is A Nullity?
A Nullity Judgment restores the parties to the status of unmarried persons and results in the parties being free to remarry immediately. While a divorce dissolves the existing marriage, a nullity judgment erases the marriage and its implications from the onset, as though the parties had never married. A Judgment of Nullity, or annulment, may be obtained under any of the following circumstances: Incest; Bigamy; Lack of informed consent to the marriage; The husband or wife of the prior marriage was believed to be dead at the time of the subsequent marriage, but in fact was not; Unsound mind; Fraud; Force, unless afterwards the party who was forced into the marriage freely cohabited with the other party as husband and wife; or Either party, at the time of the marriage, was physically incapable of consummating the marriage, and the incapacity appears to be incurable. Most people believe that time is a factor in obtaining an annulment. That is not necessarily the case. It is true, for most