Insert Pages To Legal North Carolina Annulment Forms For Free

If you cannot afford the fees for filing your Complaint for Divorce, you can ask the Court to let you file for free. In order to make that request, you must file a ?Petition to Proceed as an Indigent.? If approved, you will not have to pay the filing fee to the Clerk or service of process fee to the sheriff.

To obtain an annulment, you must file an N.C. annulment form in the county where your spouse resides and provide the court with evidence that your situation fits one of the circumstances listed in North Carolina law as reasons for an annulment. The other party may dispute the evidence in court or agree to your request.

The state of North Carolina requires couples to have been separated for one year before getting a divorce. While there can be exceptions to this requirement based on extenuating circumstances, there is no way to avoid this one year waiting period.

The 30-day period begins once you serve your partner with divorce. Your spouse then has 30 days to respond to the divorce. If partners agree to the divorce, they can speed up the process with a 30-day waiver. Legal Briefs: How long does getting a divorce take?

A very short marriage is not a legal reason for an annulment.

A 30-day waiver is part of the process to speed up a divorce between couples. Once a spouse has been served with their divorce petition, they have 30 days in which to respond to the petition. If both parties agree and sign the waiver within 30 days, then the divorce can move forward fairly quickly.