Legal Question in Family Law in Massachusetts

Re: anullment

You can always claim an annulment, which tests the validity of the entry into the marriage. However, as a legal matter, if the court decides that there was not sufficient legal fraud in the other party's statements, and if no OTHER legal impediment existed (e.g., age, one or both parties already married, parties too closely related), the Court may find the marriage legally valid.

As a practical matter, you would do better to seek a divorce. The legal validity of the marriage is generally upheld absent substantial fraud ("It turns out that he was not, in fact, Donald Trump") or legal impediment existed. The remedies of property division and alimony will be simply resolved by the Court in most such cases -- neither party is likely to be awarded the other's property or support.

A religious annulment can follow a divorce in some churches, notably the Catholic Church, if that is important to you.

: anullment

The sooner you file, the better. If you have the grounds, then you need to file with the court.

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Re: anullment

In order to get an annullment you must show that you were induced into the marriage by fraud. It is not to late to get one.