I have been married for one year at the end of this month and it seems that the marriage is mutually over.
Annulment is more quaint than divorce.
The concept of annulment is an old-fashioned one adopted by state legislatures many years ago at the behest of certain religions which publicly opposed divorce, but privately recognized that certain marriages were simply not meant to be. For example, in many states, if a prospective husband professed that he wanted to have children, but knew this was impossible because he had an irreversible vasectomy, this might be grounds for an annulment based on fraud. When it comes to dividing property, determining custody or child support or other practical matters, there is little real difference between an annulment and a divorce. Send us feedback . Inc. 30 years of providing quality legal information.