Deck 6: Annulment

Question 1

An annulment is a declaration that a valid marriage can be dissolved.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Once an annulment has been decreed, the phrase "annulled marriage" is more technically correct that the phrase "attempted marriage."

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The minimum age to marry may differ depending on whether:

A)the parents have consented
B)the female is pregnant
C)a child has already been born
D)all of the above

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The refusal of a spouse to engage in sexual intercourse is a ground for annulment.

Question 5

Which of the following is not an intent or state-of-mind ground for annulment?

A)sham marriage
B)duress
C)consanguinity
D)fraud

Question 6

When is fraud a ground for annulment?

Question 7

Consanguinity is relationship by marriage.

Question 8

What is the standard of mental disability that will qualify as a ground for annulment?

Question 9

What is the last-in-time presumption?

Question 10

Which of the following is not a legal capacity ground for annulment?

A)preexisting marriage
B)fraud
C)physical disability
D)nonage

Question 11

What is the Enoch Arden presumption?

Question 12

Today, children of an annulled marriage are usually considered legitimate.

Question 13

When there has been more than one marriage, the first marriage is presumed to be valid.

Question 14

Distinguish between an annulment and a divorce.

Question 15

When there has been more than one marriage, the most recent marriage is presumed to be invalid.

Question 16

Distinguish between a voidable and a void marriage.

Question 17

Ratification is a retroactive approval of something.

Question 18

Infertility can be a ground for an annulment.

Question 19

After which of the following court decrees are the parties still validly married?

A)divorce
B)legal separation
C)annulment
D)all of the above

Question 20

Some states will invalidate a marriage entered in their state solely to evade the marriage laws of another state.

Question 21

Match each numbered entry with the most relevant lettered entry below
a.GAL
b.consanguinity
c.affinity
d.lucid interval
e.impediment
f.voidable
i.Enoch Arden
g.annulment
h.ratification
j.intestate
declaration that a marriage never existed

Question 22

A judgment is a binding judgment that establishes (declares) rights or duties, but does not order their enforcement.

Question 23

Match each numbered entry with the most relevant lettered entry below
a.GAL
b.consanguinity
c.affinity
d.lucid interval
e.impediment
f.voidable
i.Enoch Arden
g.annulment
h.ratification
j.intestate
presumption of death

Question 24

A is the person or company holding legal title to property for the benefit of another.

Question 25

Under the marriage presumption, if more than one marriage is alleged to exist, the most recent marriage is presumed to be valid.

Question 26

Match each numbered entry with the most relevant lettered entry below
a.GAL
b.consanguinity
c.affinity
d.lucid interval
e.impediment
f.voidable
i.Enoch Arden
g.annulment
h.ratification
j.intestate
the marriage of a man with his widowed daughter in law

Question 27

A is an assumption or inference that a certain fact is true once another fact is established.

Question 28

Match each numbered entry with the most relevant lettered entry below
a.GAL
b.consanguinity
c.affinity
d.lucid interval
e.impediment
f.voidable
i.Enoch Arden
g.annulment
h.ratification
j.intestate
relationship by blood

Question 29

A relationship that is recognized as a marriage because a party is prevented from asserting the invalidity of the marriage even though grounds for its invalidity may exist is called a marriage by .

Question 30

Match each numbered entry with the most relevant lettered entry below
a.GAL
b.consanguinity
c.affinity
d.lucid interval
e.impediment
f.voidable
i.Enoch Arden
g.annulment
h.ratification
j.intestate
special guardian

Question 31

A marriage is invalid even if no court ever declares its invalidity.

Question 32

Match each numbered entry with the most relevant lettered entry below
a.GAL
b.consanguinity
c.affinity
d.lucid interval
e.impediment
f.voidable
i.Enoch Arden
g.annulment
h.ratification
j.intestate
valid unless declared invalid

Question 33

Match each numbered entry with the most relevant lettered entry below
a.GAL
b.consanguinity
c.affinity
d.lucid interval
e.impediment
f.voidable
i.Enoch Arden
g.annulment
h.ratification
j.intestate
legal obstacle

Question 34

Match each numbered entry with the most relevant lettered entry below
a.GAL
b.consanguinity
c.affinity
d.lucid interval
e.impediment
f.voidable
i.Enoch Arden
g.annulment
h.ratification
j.intestate
sanity before returning to insanity

Question 35

Match each numbered entry with the most relevant lettered entry below
a.GAL
b.consanguinity
c.affinity
d.lucid interval
e.impediment
f.voidable
i.Enoch Arden
g.annulment
h.ratification
j.intestate
approval of something after it occurred

Question 36

Match each numbered entry with the most relevant lettered entry below
a.GAL
b.consanguinity
c.affinity
d.lucid interval
e.impediment
f.voidable
i.Enoch Arden
g.annulment
h.ratification
j.intestate
die without a valid will

Question 37

What is the conflict-of-laws rule on the validity of a marriage?

Question 38

What is a sham marriage?