Unlike a divorce, which recognizes that a marriage had an official beginning and end, an annulment declares the marriage to be null and void – as if the marriage never existed in the first place.
In an annulment, the courts do their best to return the individuals’ lives to what they were like before the marriage. This means that you walk away with everything you walked in to the marriage with, and anything that was gained during the marriage as a joint venture is split equitably. [Read more…]