Annulment vs. Divorce

Annulmentnoun

An act or instance of annulling.

Annulmentnoun

The state of having been annulled.

Annulmentnoun

(legal) An invalidation of something, especially a legal contract.

Annulmentnoun

(legal) A legal (notably judicial) declaration that a marriage is invalid; the procedure leading to it.

Annulmentnoun

(archaic) Total destruction.

Annulmentnoun

The act of annulling; abolition; invalidation.

Annulmentnoun

the state of being cancelled or annulled

Annulmentnoun

(law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc)

Annulmentnoun

the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation

Annulment

Annulment is a legal procedure within secular and religious legal systems for declaring a marriage null and void. Unlike divorce, it is usually retroactive, meaning that an annulled marriage is considered to be invalid from the beginning almost as if it had never taken place (though some jurisdictions provide that the marriage is only void from the date of the annulment; for example, this is the case in section 12 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 in England and Wales).

Divorcenoun

The legal dissolution of a marriage.

Divorcenoun

A separation of connected things.

Divorcenoun

(zoology) The separation of a bonded pair of animals.

Divorcenoun

(obsolete) That which separates.

Divorceverb

(transitive) To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.

Divorceverb

(transitive) To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way.

Divorceverb

(intransitive) To obtain a legal divorce.

Divorceverb

(transitive) To separate something that was connected.

Divorcenoun

A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii.

Divorcenoun

The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved.

Divorcenoun

Separation; disunion of things closely united.

Divorcenoun

That which separates.

Divorceverb

To dissolve the marriage contract of, either wholly or partially; to separate by divorce.

Divorceverb

To separate or disunite; to sunder.

Divorceverb

To make away; to put away.

Divorcenoun

the legal dissolution of a marriage

Divorceverb

part; cease or break association with;

Divorceverb

get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage;

Divorce

Divorce (also known as dissolution of marriage) is the process of terminating a marriage or marital union. Divorce usually entails the canceling or reorganizing of the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage, thus dissolving the bonds of matrimony between a married couple under the rule of law of the particular country or state.