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Michigan Annulment and Prohibited Marriage Laws
More Information on Annulment and Prohibited Marriage Laws
| Code Section | 552.34, et seq.; 551.1 et seq.; 552.29-.30 |
| Grounds for Annulment | Underage; insanity; idiocy; physical incapacity to consummate; force or fraud |
| Time Limits for Obtaining Annulment | Underage: Unless they freely cohabit upon reaching majority; Incapacity: 2 years from marriage; Lunatic: Unless upon restoration of reason, they freely cohabit; Force or fraud: Unless there is voluntary cohabitation prior to commencement of suit |
| Legitimacy of Children | Issue of marriage void for nonage or bigamy or insanity are legitimate. |
| Prohibited Marriages | Bigamous; those with syphilis or gonorrhea (felony); same sex; marriage between ancestors or descendants, brother and sister (blood or affinity), aunt and nephew, uncle and niece, first cousins |
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