Legal Question in Family Law in Nevada

I have been married for 2 months.We both want to end the marrige.My wife lives in another state and refuses to move here like we had planed before we got married.Do we get an anullment or a divorce?


Asked on 12/16/10, 5:51 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

If you have resided here in Nevada for at least 6 weeks before the filing of your divorce complaint, then you would qualify for a divorce. The grounds for divorce would be incompatibility.

In order for the court to grant an annulment, you would have to show some sort of fraud or lack of understanding (for example one of you was intoxicated). An annulment means that the marraige essentially never took place.

You might be able to argue that her failure to move to Las Vegas despite her prior promise was some type of "fraud". I don't know enough about your circumstances to know if an annulment is right for you. Certainly, the fact that you both don't want to be married anymore makes a divorce most likely appropriate.

Please contact me if you wish to have an attorney assist you with this matter.

Best of luck,

Greta Muirhead

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Answered on 12/21/10, 6:07 pm


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