A woman managed to cancel her marriage to a man living in Lebanon who felt any feeling of love and who had no intention of living with her.
He was demonstrated before the court that marriage was the most effective way for man to leave Lebanon. In addition to this cancellation, the Quebec Superior Court ordered the man to compensate for $ 22,000 to his ex-wife.
Man and woman are of Lebanese origin and Druze confession. When married, the woman lives in Canada, while the man lives in Lebanon.
A marriage abroad
Contact is made on social networks in August 2020. Women attach great importance to the fact that man is of Druze confession. She recognizes before the court that this factor contributed “to the excess of naivety which she demonstrates” faced with the eagerness of man to formalize their relationship.
The woman went to Lebanon in November 2020 to meet him and possibly marry her. The marriage is celebrated shortly after, on site, the 1is December.
After marriage, the new spouses do not live together and have no intimate relationships, says the woman before the court. The new bride returns to Canada and steps to allow man to immigrate to Canada are then started.
Administrative procedures are long and it was not until July 5, 2022 that man arrived in Canada. Strangely, he does not inform his wife of obtaining his visa and his arrival in the country. He claims before the court to want to make him a “surprise”.
It was only after a few days that the man visits his wife. He then explains to her that he has no feeling in love for her and that he does not intend to live with her. He even tells her about his intention to divorce.
Feeling “injured, betrayed and deceived by the one she loves and that she married in order to start a family”, the woman rather requests the cancellation of the marriage and claims various amounts for the prejudices suffered. In response, the man opposes the cancellation of the marriage and claims the woman sums for various damages and the reimbursement of certain costs, including those related to marriage.
How do you get the cancellation of a marriage
In general, divorce is the privileged solution when a couple wishes to end their union. However, the court can cancel a marriage in certain exceptional cases.
A marriage can be canceled if it has not been celebrated according to the rules. It can also be canceled if the consent of one of the spouses is not free or enlightened. It is this principle that women evoke in this case, since she did not know that the only objective of man was to immigrate to Canada and that he had no intention of making a common life.
The woman maintains that she had not had moments of intimacy with her husband in Lebanon when the man affirms the opposite.
However, written messages show that the couple wishes Good night or Good morning Every day during this period.
“This is irreconcilable with the fact [que le couple vit] Under the same roof, ”writes the judge.
And in addition to not warning her when he gets a plane ticket to come to Canada, the man will live with another woman when he arrives. Various circumstances suggest that he has a romantic relationship with this woman and that it is with her that he wants to live in Canada.
The real human intentions
The proof presented to the Court therefore demonstrates that man had no intention, at the time of marriage, to respect the rights and obligations of the spouses.
The judge concludes that the man wanted to immigrate to Canada “probably in order to find another woman there” and that marriage was the most effective way to leave Lebanon. The latter must therefore be canceled.
The court sentenced the man to pay the woman more than $ 22,000.
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