Cousin Coerced Into Marriage Advice Needed

Don’t you have to register to be wed in Vegas 30 days before or something? Feels fake to me!

Go to a lawyer straight away, because this marriage can be easily annulled, no marriage is legal and binding without consent. Police will probably have to be involved. Even when married you have your rights in property-he has no right to your house unless you die and have made no will leaving it to someone else. Make a will when with the lawyer- this man is obviously dangerous and he is in a better position with you dead , before you make a will.
He is not well informed, his age has no bearing on his right to your cousin's property.
The council will not rehouse him because he made himself homeless by giving his house to his daughter- people that are desperate are dangerous- go to a lawyer then the police , now.

I got married in Vegas, you have to go apply for your marriage licence first before the chapel otherwise it’s not legal. Did they go to both?

That depends on the paperwork. You have to get a marriage licence before the ceremony for it to be legal, so if they don’t do that it isn’t. If they did, that shows pre planning, and they both have to be present to get the licence. If they have a licence then I think she’s not telling the truth.

www.clarkcountynv.gov/government/elected_officials/county_clerk/how-to-get-married-in-las-vegas

I got married in vegas and we had to apply for the marriage license 24 or 48 hours beforehand. So did she do that? If not, I’m not sure she did get married as both people have to be there to register.

Get him out of the house. Get her to call the police if he wont leave - none molestation order if needed and Id log with them that she suspected he spiked her.

Get onto a solicitor ASAP

Re the consummation comment; if she was too intoxicated to knowingly give informed consent to the marriage, she was definitely too intoxicated to knowingly give informed consent to sex afterwards. Which isn’t consummation; it’s rape.

Id question this paperwork.

Call the police and a solicitor, if she married under the influence get an annulment not a divorce. But also check this paperwork is actually real

Bloody heck! Definitely get her to call the Police as this sounds dodgy.

A man of 61 does not look 45, why going out with him ?

I suggest that she (or you - they advise concerned friends, colleagues etc. too) contact the Forced Marriage Unit.

Forced marriage - GOV.UK https://share.google/BfhP5i4DIDStCKTVc

I think the situation is about op and not the hypothetical cousin.

I think she married him and now regrets it. And wants to know if a marriage done in Vegas will be legal here or not.

It is legal. But you can still get it annulled. For a number of reasons.

And he isn't entitled to your assets because of how short the marriage is. So even if you can't get it annulled and have to divorce he isn't entitled to your assets.

But the marriage is valid if you did the whole license thing beforehand.

She's disappeared

He said he was 45 but he was 61. Surely you has some idea that was BS. Kick him out, he hasn't got a leg to stand on. Make sure sister stays in the house and doesn't move out.

I got married in vegas. It doesn’t work like that. You both have to present at the licence bureau to get the licence to marry, you’re not allowed to be intoxicated and both have to sign for it and show your I.d documents.

I’d be surprised if a Las Vegas chapel actually married somebody who was catatonic and drugged up. That’s a lawsuit waiting to happen. I’d also expect they videoed it, or at least have security cameras which would show the state she was in.

Are you sure she was actually drugged?

There could be an offence of control or coercion. But it is not a UK matter as this took place in the USA. I would go to the police to seek advice. This is just an terrible , situation, just awful, but advice is needed as soon as possible

She immediately needs to check the legal status of the marriage. If lawful, she should seek legal advice about an annulment. If she was drugged this is a matter for the police. This needs to be acted on as a matter of urgency.

Just wow

that should have been annulled asap really. Not sure the time frame but try that?

Otherwise, divorce but it sounds like he did that whole trip unpurpose and planned with intent to actually get her drunk enough to marry her. So a lawyer could advise on how to deal with it.

where they actually live is more important than where they got married so , again, a lawyer should be able to advise on how to proceed and also how try his claim to the house is.

edit: how TRUE his claim…

She needs to go to the police and file for annulment asap.

Also try the Forced Marriage Protection Unit - part of the FCDO. They may be able to help with eg. changing her NI number if he's likely to have got hold of it. And may well know about how to seek annulments of marriages conducted abroad, if indeed they somehow did marry with her drunk/ drugged.

Not pointless. Evidence of drugs in her system is better than no evidence of drugs in her system. How the drugs got in her system is not easy to prove, but it does rather depend what the drugs are. If it’s a drug that isn’t generally taken for recreational purposes but known to cause memory loss I’d say that would be helpful evidence.

I didn't know that either but just found mine from 2000!

She needs to call the police and tell them she was drugged and coerced into marriage and that he is now violent and refusing to leave her home and has threatened her parents.

Hopefully she can get him removed, change the locks and then get legal advice

This is the law if the marriage took place in the UK. There may well be the same grounds for annulment in Nevada but the application would have to be made to a court in Nevada not a UK court.