If I was married when I was under 16 years of age can I invalidate it?
Full Question:
I am married and I live in Vermont. I was under sixteen years of age when we entered in this relationship. Now I am nineteen. Can I now proceed to invalidate our marriage on the ground of minority?
01/11/2017 |
Category: Marriage ยป Minor |
State: Vermont |
#29907
Answer:
“The civil marriage contract may be annulled when, at the time of marriage, either party had not attained the age of 16 years or was physically or mentally incapable of entering into the civil marriage state or when the consent of either party was obtained by force or fraud.”
15 V.S.A. § 513, provision regarding cohabitation as husband and wife after attainment of the age of consent provides as follows:
“A complaint to annul a civil marriage on the ground that one of the parties was under the age of 16 years may be brought by the parent or guardian entitled to the custody of such minor or by a person admitted by the court to prosecute the same as the next friend of such minor. However, such marriage shall not be annulled on the complaint of a party of legal age at the time it was contracted nor when the parties, after they attained the age of consent, freely cohabited as husband and wife.”
