Annulement

People are often in a situation where an annulment is preferable to divorce. An annulment has the legal effect of saying that your marriage never occurred in the first place. If you are seeking an annulment lawyer in Detroit MI, look no further than DivorceEx.com with extensive experience in Michigan Divorce & Family Law. If your marriage is annulled, it is legally determined that your marriage is erased from your legal record as if it never happened.

In Michigan, you must prove that your marriage falls under one of the following reasons:

• Lack of consent by either you or your spouse when married and one of you was under 16
• You or your spouse were of unsound mind when you got married
• You are related by blood
• If one partner was married to someone else
• One partner was induced to marry by fraud, generally meaning one of the parties materially lied to induce the other to marry– such as falsely expressing a desire to have children.
• Marriage was solely for the wealth
• Marriage was solely for a green card

Regardless of whether you ask the court to annul your marriage, you have to meet an annulment’s grounds.  If you cannot, you can still go through a divorce. Both divorces and annulments in Michigan follow similar processes when proceeding through the court system. A party initiates either process by filing a complaint with the court. The complaint for annulment need to states the reasons for annulling the marriage of the parties. In most circumstances, annulments prefer when there is a very short marriage and when few (if any) assets and debts have been accumulated. Since an annulment treats the marriage as though it never existed, no marital property division takes place; however, property division may still occur through general contract law.

The experienced divorce lawyers at DivorceEx.net will fight for individuals who are seeking to enter an annulment in Detroit, Wayne County, Oakland County, Macomb County, Monroe County, or the greater Ann Arbor (MI) region. DivorceEX.net has extensive experience in helping spouses demonstrate that they have unknowingly entered into an invalid or voidable marriage.

If you have questions about annulment in Michigan, we have answers. Contact our office today at 248-281-6299 to speak with our family law attorney.