Annulment is a legal procedure for declaring a marriage null and void. Unlike divorce, it's retroactive: an annulled marriage is considered never to have existed. In strict legal terminology, (annulment) refers only to making a voidable marriage null; if the marriage is void ab initio, then it's automatically null, although a legal declaration of nullity is required to establish this. The process of obtaining such a declaration is similar to the annulment process. Generally speaking, annulment,… (More on Annulment)