HUsband left after a month of marriage

I married my husband on June 1st. He left on july 17th and decided he didnt want to be married anymore. he moved back in with his ex gf and they just had a child 2gether this month. yes she was already pregnant. we have no plans of getting back together period and i do not want to remained married for a full yr when we were technically only together a month and a half. would i be able to get an annulment?!?

You cannot get an annulment unless you had a void marriage to begin with. A void marriage is not common (for example, one spouse was too young to consent to marriage, it was a bigamous marriage, one spouse did not have the mental capacity to understand that he/she was entering into a marriage, etc.).

With a valid marriage, you must wait the one-year separation period before being able to proceed with an absolute divorce, even if the marriage only last a few weeks or even a few days.


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