Marriage on section 3

[Wendy]

Hi me and my partner have been together for seven years I am on a section which I shouldn't be and I want to marry him this week I don't think they have any law to stop us do they?anybody know?Wx

[Wendy]

Hi me and my partner have been together for seven years I am on a section which I shouldn't be and I want to marry him this week I don't think they have any law to stop us do they?anybody know?Wx

Help someone!

[jaxie40]

Family Law
· a marriage contract is not valid if at the time of marriage either party was so
mentally disordered as not to understand its nature
· if mental disorder can be proved, a marriage may be decreed null and void by a
divorce court
· if a marriage partner becomes of ‘incurably sound mind’ later in a marriage, this
may be grounds for divorce
· other grounds for annulment of a marriage include:
· if one partner did not disclose that they suffered from epilepsy or a
communicable venereal disease before the marriage
· if the marriage was not consummated
· if either party was under the age of 16 at the time of marriage
· pregnancy by another man at the time of marriage was not disclosed
· one of the partners was forced to agree to the marriage by duress

I hope that's of some help hun

[calypso]

Its fascinating list isn't it? I thought there was British history in so many of those things. You are not mentally disordered in the way the wording of that says. The kind they are talking about is if someone cannot tell reality from fantasy on any level. However, if you were someone who had met a partner only in the last week and suddenly wanted to get married out the blue, it would well be discerned that your sense of judgment may be impaired. I know when I have been high from the bipolar, I could think the craziest things made sense.

Can you ring Mind, or CAB?? Ask them. xx

[jaxie40]

I agree calypso, a lot of the MHA is quite difficult to work out precisely. If I get a chance to later, I will try and look up some case law on the MHA and marriage. I did a law degree donkeys years ago, it'll be good to put it to some use!