The Volokh Conspiracy

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Volokh Conspiracy

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In Colorado and Delaware, a marriage can be annulled if "one or both parties entered into the marriage as a jest or dare." Thanks to FindLaw's Legally Weird (Ephrat Livni) for the pointer.

Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and a Visiting Fellow (Senior Fellow starting May 2024) at the Hoover Institution (Stanford). Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any educational institution.