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1. When you can annul a marriage Annulment is a way of ending a marriage, like divorce. Unlike divorce, you can get a marriage annulled at any time after the wedding (in a divorce, you have to wait at least a year). You may want an annulment if you have religious reasons for not wanting a divorce. However, you need to show that the marriage was either not valid in the first place, or is defective for one of the reasons given below. 1. Your marriage is not legally valid - ‘void’ marriages You can annul a marriage if it was not legally valid in the first place, eg: you are closely related one of you was under 16 one of you was already married or in a civil partnership If a marriage was not legally valid, the law says that it never existed. However, you may need legal paperwork to prove this - eg if you want to get married again. 2. Your marriage is defective - ‘voidable’ marriages You can annul a marriage if: it wasn’t consummated - you haven’t had sex wi...