Legal Question in Family Law in Texas

Anulment

Question: Can you get an anulment after a divorce?

Why:

In 1996, my husband married at 18 because of getting a girl pregnant. She said she would stay, have more children, and raise a family if they did marry. They went to a JP and married less than a month before she gave birth then after she said she never wanted to be a mom, doesn't want anymore children, and that she just wanted to marry him. She threatened to drop his son off at a shelter to get rid of him. Finally, after a month, she left and never looked back. He did not know what a ''legal'' anulment was then, so he filed for divorce. Now knowing of anulment legally, he was wondering if he can still get one even though he has already divorced her. He regrets ever meeting her and feels he was tricked into what he thought was going to be a family. He feels it was fraud because he has always wanted a large family. He didn't consider himself as married, it lasted less than a month. He wants all records erased or esponged of them ever being married, divorced, etc. We are married and I've been mother to his son for 7 years and we have 5 more children together. He claims I am the only marriage he has.


Asked on 7/18/08, 12:38 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
TC Langford Langford Law Office

Re: Anulment

Well, despite the heartache, he can't have what he wants. Additionally, for all practical purposes, an annulment under the law is the same as a divorce. If he is Catholic, and wants an annulment, he needs to contact his church to initiate the process, (which would probably grant one under these circumstances). Legally, you are his second marriage. Hopefully throughout this, he has legal custody of his son (mothers sometime mature and come back and try to claim their children).

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Answered on 7/18/08, 5:20 pm


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