Application for annulment granted to wife of transsexual

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B (formerly known as M) -v- L

Neutral citation (2009) IEHC 623.

High Court

Judgment was delivered by Mr Justice Henry Abbott on July 17th, 2009.

Judgment

An application for nullity of marriage on the part of the wife of a male-to-female transsexual, which was heard as a preliminary matter before the hearing of a divorce application by the transsexual, was granted on the grounds that the wife would not have consented to the marriage had she been aware of the reality of her then husband’s sexual identity.