My daughter got married in February of this year. She has endured quite a bit of emotional and mental anguish and verbal abuse from an out of work husband. He demands she hand over $3000 a month without seeing the bills he says he is paying. The verbal abuse had reached an all time high. He said he does not want to have sex with her because he hates having sex with her. Can she get an anulment? If not, what does she need to do to get a divorce without him running up debts that will fall back on her?
Optional Information: State/Country of Question: Texas Already Tried: She has asked to talk about it, he refuses. He goes out and comes back at 3 and 4 in the morning. He is hiding his cell phone in his pocket and makes sure she sees no messages or when it rings he goes outside to answer. She is in our house for two weeks because of her job and is physically separated from him right now. His comments of meanness has brought her to tears several times in the last month. He told him before she left she would only pay the bills she sees next month.
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an annulment can be obtained when there is something about the marriage that makes it illegal or "voidable" meaning - it is not about the length of the marriage - the basis for an annulment are Fraud, duress, bigamy or consanguinity
for instance, if one or the other spouse was not properly divorced before entering another marriage, or if one or the other spouse has serious mental health issues that were not known to the other, or if one or the other spouse is not of legal age to enter into the marriage -
the recourse is divorce.
Experience: 20 years practicing law