Annulment in Nevada

To obtain an annulment in Nevada, at least one Party must reside within the State of Nevada for six weeks prior to the commencement of the proceedings or the marriage was obtained, contracted or entered into within the State of Nevada.

Parties may be entitled to an annulment based upon several causes as follows:

• Lack of consent of parent or guardian – As a minor is unable to contract, they must first obtain consent to from a parent, guardian, or District Court.  The annulment proceedings must be brought within one year of the minor turning eighteen years of age.
• Want of understanding – If either of the Parties to the marriage for want of understanding are incapable of assenting to the marriage.
• Fraud – If consent to marriage was obtained by fraud and the fraud can be established.
• Grounds declaring a contract void in equity.
  

Void Marriages

Marriages are void without a decree of divorce or annulment or other legal proceeding if the marriage is prohibited by law as follows:

1. Consanguinity between the Parties
2. One the Parties is married at the time the Parties married.