Article: ANNULMENT: the new divorce?

Byline: CHRISSY ILEY

AGAINST a background of spiralling marriage failure and, as of last week, groundbreaking divorce settlements, it was only a matter of time before we came upon an alternative to the messy, costly divorce - enter the annulment.

Now every Tom, Dick and Nicole seems to be getting in on the act.

First there was Renee Zellweger, who had her four-month marriage to Kenny Chesney annulled on the grounds of 'fraud'. And now Nicole Kidman is said to have been granted an annulment of her ten year marriage to Tom Cruise, so she can remarry in a Catholic church.

Although the marathon length of the marriage in this case was unusual, it seems the ...

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