If a marriage is putative, this is taken to mean that it never took place and therefore does not exist.
If a marriage is putative, this is taken to mean that it never took place and therefore does not exist.
If, in a declaration of the will to get married, or during or in connection with the marriage ceremony, one of the persons intending to marry does not meet the conditions that absolutely need to be satisfied in order for the marriage to be established (e.g. a declaration of the will to get married by one or both of the engaged, a ceremony before an authority or a person legally empowered to marry people), the marriage is not established.
A court, further to an application or of its own motion, may declare that a marriage is void.