Knoll v. Knoll

Citations

• 104 Wash. 110
• 176 P. 22
• 11 A.L.R. 1391
• 1918 Wash. LEXIS 1167

Syllabus

<p>Marriage (5) — Persons Who Mat Marry — Divorced Person. A marriage within the six months prohibited by the divorce, outside of the jurisdiction where the parties went for that purpose and immediately returning without intent to change their domicile, is void.</p> <p>Same (17) — Annulment—Grounds—Mistake of Law and Pact. Where plaintiff in a divorce case, after trial believed in good faith that a decree of divorce was entered, and within six months married in a foreign jurisdiction honestly believing that such marriage would be valid, her mistake of fact and law was in no sense meretricious, and authorizes the court to annul the marriage at her suit.</p> <p>Same (21) — -Annulment—Property Rights. Upon the annulment of a void marriage, in no sense meretricious but entered into in good faith, the courts will treat the relation as a partnership as to all property acquired by the joint efforts of the parties while living together as husband and wife, the wife having assisted in the business, earned part of her personal expenses, and faithfully performed the duties of a housewife.</p>