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You may petition the circuit court in the county where you reside for an annulment of your marriage. A circuit judge may decide to hear such a case in chambers (the judge's private office) if the judge decides it is in the best interests of the parties. It is best to hire an attorney if you can afford to do so.

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A legal separation must be filed in the county where you currently live with your spouse or in the county where you and your spouse last lived. In addition, you must submit the application, the family relationship form and a signed settlement agreement. There is a filing fee for legal separation in Arkansas.

However, as long as you can prove fault or prove that you and your spouse have been living separate and apart for at least 18 months, then the court will grant your divorce. You will have to be prepared to put on proof of fault or 18 months of separation. You can do this through witnesses or documentary evidence.

A marriage can be annulled only when the law considers your marriage either void or voidable. Examples of void marriages?unions that aren't legal to begin with?are where there's bigamy or incest. An example of a voidable marriage is one that took place when the spouses were highly intoxicated.

In all cases in which any husband abandons his wife, or a wife her husband, and resides beyond the limits of this state for the term of five (5) successive years, without being known to the other spouse to be living during that time, the abandoning party's death shall be presumed.