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Grounds for Annulment in Illinois

A Person lacked the capacity to consent at the time of marriage ceremony for one of the following reasons:

Mental incapacity or infirmity.
 
Influence of alcohol, drugs or other incapacitating substances.
 
Party induced to enter a marriage by force, duress or fraud involving the essentials of the marriage.

A Party lacks the physical capacity to consummate the marriage by sexual intercourse and the other party did not know of

the incapacity at the time of the marriage ceremony.

A Party was age 16 or 17 and did not have consent of parents or guardian or judicial approval.

Marriages entered into prior to the dissolution of an earlier marriage of one of the parties.

Marriages between an ancestor and a descendent or between a brother and sister, whether the relationship is by the half or the whole blood or by adoption.

Marriages between an uncle and a niece or between an aunt and a nephew.

Marriages between first cousins unless:

both parties are 50 years of age or older; or either party produces at the time of application for marriage, a certificate signed

by a licensed physician stating that the party is permanently and irrevocably sterile.

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	Did You Know?
	A "Living Trust" can be used to hold legal title to and provide a mechanism to manage your property You can select the person or persons you want -- often even yourself -- as the Trustee(s) to carry out the instructions you want in the Trust and name one or more Successor Trustees to take over if you cannot. Unlike a Will, a Trust usually becomes effective immediately, continues in force during your lifetime even in the event of your incapacity, and continues after your death. Most Trusts are "revocable" which allows the person who creates the Trust to make future changes, modifications and even to terminate it.