QUESTION: After you get married and in less than a year you get divorced, is it called an annulment? Can she walk away with anything that belonged to me and not hers before we got married? What is she entitled to?
MY RESPONSE:
If a marriage doesn't work out, whether for less or more than a year, it is dissolved by Dissolution of Marriage (commonly known as divorce).
Annulment is only allowed when valid grounds for annulment exist, most commonly fraud that goes to the heart of the marriage.
Property owned by either party before marriage is that party's separate property. Your wife is not entitled to your separate property. She is only entitled to her own separate property and 1/2 of the net community property (if any exists).
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