Do I qualify for annulement?

[RubySnowflake]

What is the name of your state? Virginia

I have been married for nearly 9 months and recently left my husband because he was not doing his part financially or domestically in the marriage. He has worked part time only and did not help around the house even while I was sick and in the hospital. When I was released from the hospital I returned home and began to re-evaluate my life/situation. I realized that if I stayed with him, I would end up back in the hospital or worse. Can anyone please tell me if I qualify for annulemtn and, if so, how to go about pursueing one? Thank you!

[LdiJ]

Originally Posted by RubySnowflake

What is the name of your state? Virginia

I have been married for nearly 9 months and recently left my husband because he was not doing his part financially or domestically in the marriage. He has worked part time only and did not help around the house even while I was sick and in the hospital. When I was released from the hospital I returned home and began to re-evaluate my life/situation. I realized that if I stayed with him, I would end up back in the hospital or worse. Can anyone please tell me if I qualify for annulemtn and, if so, how to go about pursueing one? Thank you!

You really haven't given enough info for that question to be answered....however why do you think that you need an annulment vs a divorce? If you are thinking that an annulment is easier or quicker than a divorce...that generally isn't correct.

[RubySnowflake]

Actually, I basically want the marriage expunged from my record for lack of a better term. What more information do you need?

[rmet4nzkx]

So far you haven't cited any grounds for annulment.

How does annulment work?

Va. Code §20-89.1. Suit to annul marriage. (a) When a marriage is alleged to be void or voidable for any of the causes mentioned in §§§§ 20-13, 20-38.1, 20-45.1 or by virtue of fraud or duress, either party may institute a suit for annulling the same; and upon proof of the nullity of the marriage, it shall be decreed void by a decree of annulment. (b) In the case of natural or incurable impotency of body existing at the time of entering into the marriage contract, or when, prior to the marriage, either party, without the knowledge of the other, had been convicted of a felony, or when, at the time of the marriage, the wife, without the knowledge of the husband, was with child by some person other than the husband, or where the husband, without knowledge of the wife, had fathered a child born to a woman other than the wife within ten months after the date of the solemnization of the marriage, or where, prior to the marriage, either party had been, without the knowledge of the other, a prostitute, a decree of annulment may be entered upon proof, on complaint of the party aggrieved. (c) No annulment for a marriage alleged to be void or voidable under subsection (b) of §§ 20-45.1, subsection (b) of this section or by virtue of fraud or duress shall be decreed if it appears that the party applying for such annulment has cohabited with the other after knowledge of the facts giving rise to what otherwise would have been grounds for annulment; and, in no event shall any such decree be entered if the parties had been married for a period of two years prior to the institution of such suit for annulment. (d) A party who, at the time of such marriage as is mentioned in §§ 20-48 or §§ 20-49, was capable of consenting with a party not so capable, shall not be permitted to institute a suit for the purpose of annulling such marriage.