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I WOULD like to highlight a point to the National Registration Department. My friend who got married recently told me how upset she was with her experience at the NRD. She was previously married, and had her marriage annulled.
An annulment is a legal procedure for declaring a marriage null and void. Unlike divorce, it is retroactive: an annulled marriage is considered never to have existed.
This means that the record of her previous marriage should have been deleted. However, when she remarried and registered her civil marriage at the NRD, the officers insisted that she fill in the form as a janda (divorcee). This defeats the purpose of getting an annulment!
The worst part is that her marriage certificate bears the mark/stamp of pernah berkahwin (married previously).
It should suffice to have the records in the NRD’s database and not on the marriage certificate. What is the purpose of printing a person’s previous marital status on a marriage certificate? I hope the NRD can explain.
S.D.C., Petaling Jaya
Source: NST – March 14, 2008
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jas345
March 25th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
hi, I’m trying to find out how long can a couple qualify for an annulment. 6mths, 1 year? Would you know?