annulment...

An annulment is a legal action where, at the request of one party, the domestic relations court orders that the marriage was not legal from its inception because of one or more specified legal issues. A marriage may be annulled for any of the following causes existing at the time of the marriage: 1) the party seeking the annulment was under the legal age for marriage and after attaining legal age did not cohabite with the other party; 2) that the marriage of one of the parties was still in force; 3) that either party has been adjudicated to be mentally incompetent, unless such party after being restored to competency cohabited with the other party; 4) that the consent of either party was obtained by fraud, unless such party afterwards, with full knowledge of the facts constituting the fraud, cohabited with the other party; 5) that the consent to the marriage of either party was obtained by force, unless such party afterwards cohabited with the other party; 6) that the marriage between the parties was never consummated although otherwise valid.