When a couple goes through a divorce, their marriage is legally dissolved by a court. Marriages that should not have occurred in the first place may be declared invalid, often with the assistance of a Washington State marriages attorney. Washington State invalid marriages are those marriages that are flawed in some fundamental way such that they either are not now are were never a valid marriage.

Some circumstances that characterize Washington State invalid marriages include affinity, diminished mental capacity, and polygamy. For example, courts are sometimes asked to declare a marriage invalid when the parties were intoxicated at the time of marriage. Washington State invalid marriages are declared when it is later found out that the parties are related by blood, a fact perhaps unknown to the parties at the time of marriage. Also, sometimes a marriage occurs in another country where their marriage laws differ significantly than those in Washington, so much so that a marriage may not be valid here, and a party wishes to have the marriage declared invalid.

The topic of Washington State invalid marriages has many not so obvious rules such as the distinction between a void marriage and a voidable one, or what the difference in outcome might be between declaring a marriage invalid and dissolving it. Accordingly, Washington State invalid marriages should be analyzed by a marriages attorney trained in such cases to insure the best interests of the parties and children involved.

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