125.340 - Cause for annulment: Fraud.

125.340  Cause for annulment: Fraud.

      1.  If the consent of either party was obtained by fraud and fraud has been proved, the marriage shall be void from the time its nullity shall be declared by a court of competent authority.

      2.  No marriage may be annulled for fraud if the parties to the marriage voluntarily cohabit as husband and wife having received knowledge of such fraud.

      [Part 19:33:1861; A 1947, 445; 1943 NCL § 4067]