I have only been married for 4 months and want an anullement. I live in Maryland. Do you have to be married for atleast a year before I have to pay any alimony?
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First, if you get an annulment, there will never be alimony. An annulment creates the legal fiction that you were never married in the first place. Although, you can usually only get an annulment if their was some fraud in the inducement of the marriage. Second, if you get divorced, the question of alimony rests on whether "you established a joint life together." For example, if your spouse was about to leave for medical school on a full scholarship but decided to forgo the opportunity because of the marriage, then your spouse could get alimony (if he could not reverse his or her decision." However, the amount would likely be limited until the next admissions cycle. Usually four months is too short to cause any major detriment, so alimony will not be ordered. But it could be given the right scenario.
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