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Annulment is very strongly disfavored in California. It is a very, very narrow way to terminate a marriage. It has very, very specific statutory requirements for when you can get an annulment. If you’re drunk when you say your wedding vows the question becomes whether you had the legal capacity to enter a marriage, and legal capacity for the purposes of marriage is actually very low. So I would say that it is unlikely that you could get your marriage annulled because you were drunk when you said your wedding vows.
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Los Angeles, CA family law attorney Dora Larson talks about the requirements for getting an annulment. She explains that in California, annulment is highly disfavored and considered a very narrow method to dissolve a marriage. The legal requirements for obtaining an annulment are extremely specific and limited. For instance, if you were intoxicated when exchanging your wedding vows, the critical factor would be whether you possessed the legal capacity to enter into a marriage. It is important to note that the threshold for legal capacity in the context of marriage is generally quite low. Therefore, it is unlikely that a marriage could be annulled solely based on being intoxicated during the wedding ceremony.