WHAT ARE THE GROUNDS TO HAVE A MARRIAGE ANNULLED?
A.R.S. 25-301 states: Superior courts may dissolve a marriage and adjudge a marriage to be null and void when the cause alleged constitutes an impediment rendering the marriage void; in addition, A.R.S. 25-101 defines prohibited or void marriage. The phrase “an impediment rendering the marriage void”, generally refers to various other legal reasons why a marriage may be annulled. Generally the impediment must be sufficient that the court would agree that if the party was aware of the impediment prior to the marriage they never would have entered the marriage. A few examples of impediments which would render the marriage void are; fraud, concealment of a criminal record, and the marriage never having been consummated.
