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If you get your marriage annulled, it basically means that according to the law, the marriage “never happened.“ When filling out forms, for example, if the forms ask if you were married before, you can say “no.”
If you get a divorce, this recognizes that the marriage was a legal marriage and it was dissolved (or ended) by a divorce.
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