FRAUD, DURESS, OR FORCE
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Leax v. Leax (2009)
Most recently applied in Jawed Manjlai v. Nabila Hamid Manjlai (August 2014)
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 7, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The court may grant an annulment of a marriage to a party to the marriage if:
(1) the other party used fraud, duress, or force to induce the petitioner to enter into the marriage; and
(2) the petitioner has not voluntarily cohabited with the other party since learning of the fraud or since being released from the duress or force.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.