Annulments In Michigan

I get alot of questions about whether annulments (a judicial determination that a valid marrigage never occurred) are possible in the State of Michigan. The answer is yes but only under very limited circumstances.

Per MCL 552.1 Marriages will always be determined to be void under the following circumstances:

Bigamy
Marrigage between blood relatives
Incompetence of a party when entering into the marital contract
A person is under the age of 16 and did not have parental consent

Annulments may also occur if a marriage is obtained by force or fraud. Some examples would be where a wife fraudulently claims a man is the father of her child to trick him into marrying her, concealing the fact that one is a homosexual, failing to disclose the inability to conceive a child or concealing the fact at the time of the marriage that there is no intention to have sex with the spouse during the marriage.
Go here for the statute dealing with annulment under fraud and duress.

Please note that once a party to the marriage learns of any of these things, they must cease living together if they wish to obtain an annulment.