Annulment or Nullity of Marriage
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Annulment or Nullity of Marriage
Start Fresh, the Legal Way Simple legal support for marriage annulment.
Updated on May 19, 2026 01:36:10 PM
An annulment means declaring your marriage as void or null. Unlike divorce where both the partners seek to end their marriage, annulment simply declines the existence of any such marriage between the partners.
Divorce involves many issues such as alimony payments, child custody, interim maintenance and other related issues. Majority of us find it difficult to understand these terms. In simple terms alimony is the one-time payment that another partner must make at the time of divorce, while interim maintenance is a set amount decided by the court that must be paid at regular intervals to the spouse.
But there is much more to it than it looks. It is not like a married couple who now no longer wish to live together can claim their marriage to be void.
To understand the conditions to be met for a void marriage, you first need to understand annulment, its laws, and how they are different from a divorce. Annulment is just a declaration of a void marriage. And a void or empty marriage results in annulment.
Annulment meaning is rejecting the existence of a marriage or nullifying it. Marriage can be declared null when it has not met legal requirements at the time of marriage. Annulment of marriage means declaring a marriage that was valid till that date but now is a void marriage. It refers to declaring a voidable marriage as void. You may feel a bit confused with these two words, void and a voidable marriage. Void marriage doesn’t need any evidence or petition to declare a marriage null. It is already an empty marriage or has not ever existed after the time of its commencement. But in the case of Voidable marriage, either of the partners seeks the court judgment on the annulment of their marriage. To have a bit better clarity, we can understand it from the legal perspective also.
Void and Voidable Marriage
A clear difference between a void and voidable marriage is explained under Section 5 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955. It basically explains the conditions of a valid marriage which also led to the origin of the concept of void and a voidable marriage. There are a total 5 clauses in that section where clause:
Now that you are aware of all 5 clauses, it will be easy to grasp the concept of void and a voidable marriage. Void marriage under Hindu Law is those that violate Clause (i), (iv), (v) of Section 5. And Voidable Marriage is that which violate (ii) of the same. We hope that would have cleared the confusion.
Now if you want to seek nullity of your marriage, then it must fall under the grounds of a voidable marriage.
There are different grounds under which one can seek nullity of marriage in the court. Those grounds are:
In a single line, the Indian Divorce Act and Hindu Marriage Act have laws related to annulment in India.
There are grounds only under which a marriage can be nullified in cases of a voidable marriage. However, we are not going to say the process is quick and easy. But with the best legal consultancy at Litem, you definitely have an upper hand in all these matters. The process of reaching us out is even more simple:
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So now when we are clear with void and voidable marriage, it is a good time to understand the difference between an annulment and divorce.
| Marriage Annulment | Divorce |
|---|---|
| Annulment simply refuses the existence of any such marriage | Divorce ends the existing marriage. |
| The marital status changed to single after the annulment. | The marital status becomes divorced. |
| No alimony or spousal maintenance can be demanded in case of nullity of marriage. | Provision for spousal maintenance and alimony is there in divorce proceedings. |
| Marriage annulment can be done of void and voidable marriages. | Divorce can either be by mutual consent or contested divorce. |
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An annulment is a legal process that declares a marriage as never having happened due to certain legal grounds, making it invalid from the beginning.
Divorce simply seeks the end of the marriage whereas annulment of marriage declines the existence of any such marriage.
No, there is no such thing as a mutual agreement in the annulment of marriage. If there is a violation of Section 5 clause (ii) of the Hindu Succession Act, then there is no need for agreement of both parties. Even either of the spouses can file a case for the annulment of marriage in the court as well.
¸In India, a marriage can be annulled if it was done under force, fraud, or without full mental capacity. It can also be declared invalid if one partner was already married, or if either partner was underage at the time of marriage. These are legal reasons that make the marriage void from the start.
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