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Annulment
Legal procedure for declaring a marriage null and void / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Annulment is a legal procedure within secular and religious legal systems for declaring a marriage null and void.[1] Unlike divorce, it is usually retroactive, meaning that an annulled marriage is considered to be invalid from the beginning almost as if it had never taken place.[lower-alpha 1][2] In legal terminology, an annulment makes a void marriage or a voidable marriage null.[3]
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