Sentences with phrase «voidable marriages»

Annulment in North Carolina terminates two types of invalid marriages - void marriages and voidable marriages.

Voidable marriages can be made legal or ratified by the actions of the partners.

Voidable marriages and limitations include:

Specifically, grounds for voidable marriages can be waived by cohabitation after the condition is discovered or remedied.

Voidable marriages are those that are valid but can be declared void under certain circumstances.

The previous law was clear that a voidable marriage was a valid marriage unless and until annulled.

An annulment requires the court to restore property to the parties who owned it prior to the voidable marriage.

If the husband and wife continue to cohabit in a voidable marriage and then have a child together, their marriage may become valid.

Not exact matches

If the marriage is held to be void or voidable, an agreement that would otherwise have been a premarital agreement shall be enforceable only to the extent necessary to avoid an inequitable result.

Note: Even if the marriage is not automatically void because of the same gender, it might still be void or voidable because of deception (if that can be proved).

For example, in Germany a marriage is voidable (but not void) if one partner deceived the other to make them agree to the marriage.

In proceedings for nullity of marriage on the ground that the marriage is void or voidable, the court may, nonetheless, grant the relief sought where both parties to a marriage reside in Singapore at the time of the commencement of the proceedings.

That was part and parcel of a categorisation of marriages that might be annulled into those void ab initio (s 11) and those merely voidable (s 12).

The judgment in Roberts was clear and binding: the marriage was voidable, not void.

If the marriage is not recognised by the English court then it may be void or voidable which, in itself, gives rise to further complications as to whether the marriage should be annulled rather than dissolved, and then whether there can be financial proceedings in this country, notwithstanding the fact that the foreign marriage may not be recognised by the English court.

The argument here would be that this lack of capacity renders a marriage voidable only, with the upshot that it can only be challenged by one of the parties and is valid until successfully challenged by an annulment proceeding.

For greater certainty, a marriage is not void or voidable by reason only that the spouses are of the same sex.»

The inability to consummate a marriage, i.e. lack of sexual capacity, only makes a marriage voidable, as does the lack of age and, probably, lack of mental capacity at the time of the ceremony.

A drier approach might be to call on a fourth duality, that between marriages void ab initio and those voidable only.

If the court decides that your marriage is voidable, it will then declare that your marriage was invalid from the start.

If your marriage is voidable, it is considered to be a valid marriage until a decree of annulment is made.

A marriage may also be voidable if, at the time of the marriage, you or your partner had a sexually transmitted disease.

Like many jurisdictions, Tennessee annuls marriages that are either void or voidable.

If one or both spouses were under the influence of drugs or alcohol, the marriage is voidable.

If your marriage falls into the category of «void or voidable,» you may choose to go through a marriage annulment rather than a divorce.