Michael E. Byczek, Attorney at Law

		Annulment Annulment is referred to as “Declaration of Invalidity” in Illinois for legal purposes. The difference between invalidity and a divorce is that the marriage never happened. Divorced individuals are “unmarried”. After a declaration of invalidity, they are “single”. A marriage is invalid if - party lacked capacity to consent (i.e. mental, drugs, forced, or fraud) - lacked physical capacity to consummate marriage and the other party was unaware - party was 16 or 17 years old and did not have parental consent - marriage was prohibited Copyright © 2008-2009. Michael E. Byczek. All Rights Reserved.