Wife Wants Annulment, Husband Gets Divorce 
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Published: August 22, 2011
Tags: Domestic Relations, Henrico County Circuit Court, Judge Catherine Hammond, Virginia Circuit Courts
An American citizen wife who met her Indian national husband through the Internet and married him in Henrico and then again five months later in an “elaborate religious wedding” in India is not entitled to an annulment on the ground that the marriage was not consummated; a Henrico Circuit Court says failure to consummate the ...
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