Annulment vs. Divorce in Florida
Family Law is the professional legal practice of handling civil law issues regarding persons needing representation for such issues as pre and post-marital agreements, divorce, child support, parental timesharing, alimony, and equitable distribution of marital assets and liabilities, to name a few. Probably the most familiar cases in Family Law center around divorce or is now termed in most states, dissolution of marriage. Interestingly, there is another area of Family Law associated with the dissolution of marriage that is handled by a Family Law attorney , but it generally gets little attention, and that is an annulment of a marriage. While not needed nearly as frequently as a divorce, annulments do happen. There are several reasons for seeking an annulment but first, let’s look at the definition of divorce and an annulment. As defined on the onlinedctionary.com Divorce: “a judicial declaration dissolving a marriage in whole or in part, especially one that releases the marriage pa...