Can I file for Annulment?

What is the name of your state? Georgia

Can I file for annulment? I married my husband in February of 2002. When I married my husband, I knew that he had some run of the mill psychological problems, but he claimed to be part of a 12 step program and diligently working through these issues. I agreed to enter into the marriage with him based on the belief that he was diligently working on these issues and in honest communication with me. 9 months into the marriage I began waking up to him having sex with me in the middle of the night without my consent. Ten months into the marriage I found out that he had been compusively looking at pornography on my computer. On our First anniversary he handed me a note that said he was a timebomb waiting to explode, that he didn't know how or when, and he hated his life. Just after our first anniversary, on Valentine's Day 2003, he told me that he had been stealing money from the University where we attend and from people's purses and jackets, my personal checking account with a spare ATM card that he stole (not a joint account), and that he had been issued a warning on his job for looking at pornography on his boss' computer. February 15th (the day after Valentines Day) I left the house and stayed at my Mother's. The following Monday, the pastor helped to facilitate getting him out of the house. Within a few days he was out of the house and I moved back home. I then learned that ever since he had been sexually abused by a babysitter as a kid, he had sexually taken advantage of others by "doing what she did to him." He wrote this in an email that he copied to both myself and the pastor. He had told me that he was a virgin when we married (he deceived me), and I was a virgin when we married (we were only 20 and 21). I thought I was marrying someone totally different from the person I actually ended up marrying. Because of sexual abuse he was unable to engage in a healthy sexual relationship, an essential element of a marital relationship. Can I file for annulment?

[I AM ALWAYS LIABLE]

"9 months into the marriage I began waking up to him having sex with me in the middle of the night without my consent."


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My response:

Excuse me, but is this the 19th Century?

IAAL

LOL....very funny! But really, can I file for an annulment?

Anne

Originally posted by RevAnne
LOL....very funny! But really, can I file for an annulment?

Anne

Sorry, no annulment, so you need to divorce him, you have been in the marraige to long.

Sorry, no annulment, so you need to divorce him, you have been in the marraige to long.

Despite what the NEW forum troll tell you, yes you can file for annulment, but from the church only. as for the state, length of the marriage is not the only consideration for annulment and therefore this statement is, on the face of it, false.

No, his lying about being a virgin doesn't count.

The grounds for Annulment in the State of Georgia require that the reasons for the annulment existed prior to the marriage. There must have been some sort of misrepresentation of fact regarding either party that was discovered by the other party after the marriage. The grounds for annulment are not based upon any length of time of the marriage, nor whether the marriage has been consummated.

Next time troll, get it right.

Does discovering that he raped people before the marriage, and that he's a pedophile and would put my parishoners at risk count as misrepresentation of fact?

That is a question of fact for a judge or jury to decide. Not a question of law.

In other words, other than bigamy, there is no specified requirement under the Georgia law specified as grounds for annulment. Therefore, you will have to file and have a judge determine if this rises to the level of "misrepresentation of fact" cited in Georgia law.

Ah ok! Thanks!

Anne

You're welcome