Sunday, August 14, 2011

WHAT RECOURSE DO I HAVE IF MY HUSBAND IS STILL MARRIED TO HIS PREVIOUS WIFE?

QUESTION: I just found out my husband may still be married. Before we married he told me he got an annulment in California. What recourse do I have?

MY RESPONSE:

You should ask your husband for proof of his Annulment, such as a Judgment, or a case number and court name and location, so that you can examine the court records in that case and determine whether or not his prior marriage was annulled.

If his prior marriage was never annulled or dissolved, your marriage to him is void.

If you want out of your marriage, you can file to annul your marriage, because a person cannot be married to two people at the same time.

If you want to stay with your husband, he should divorce his "wife" and then remarry you.

You won't be entitled to derivative social security benefits based on your marriage to your husband, until 10 years after you validly marry him.

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