Navaneetha Krishnan (engineer) 19 June 2014

Joint memo on marriage annulment

ON talking to one of the Lawyer he mentioned that in his previous case, the wife had filed an Annulment case(section 12A) on her husband however both the parties wants to end the case amicably.hence they filed a joint memo in front of the Judge mentioning only 'Marriage was not consummated hence kindly declare the marriage Null and Void' and both the parties signed the same infront of the judge and they got the annulment decree within 3 months without anyone taking any blame.Is this really possible.The case i was talking happened in Chennai family court.Can some experienced person enlighten on this pls....

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Dr J C Vashista (Advocate) 20 June 2014

There are certain clauses in different Marriage Act(s) which allow the court to declare a marrigae as void, read the relevant Act/Law or engage a local lawyer.

Shantanu Wavhal (Worker) 20 June 2014

hahahaha !

the lawyer who told u made fun of you.

such thing is NOT possible.

T. Kalaiselvan, Advocate (Advocate) 23 June 2014

This can happen. If the petitioner is filing a petition with proof of marriage seeking annulment of marriage on the grounds stated therein which are within the permissible provisions of law, if the respondent on receiving the summons, appears before the court and states on affidavit that he agrees to the averments made by the petitioner and submits to the decree paid for and submits a memo jointly or separately to this effect, the court on the basis of submission by the respondent shall annul the marriage on the grounds stated by the petitioner. There is nothing strange about this.