Annulment

A marriage performed in Nevada is automatically “void” on either of two conditions: that the parties are related by blood any closer than second cousins; or if either party has “a former husband or wife then living.” If a marriage is void for one of these reasons, no decree of annulment or other legal proceeding is required to dissolve it. Nevertheless, parties in such circumstances often want a piece of paper declaring that the marriage was a non-marriage, and the court may make a “declaration of nullity of a void marriage” if asked to do so. Invalidation of a marriage on the grounds of bigamy “does not bar” prosecution for the crime of bigamy.