Meagher v. Maleki

*3Opinion

RUVOLO, J.

The law in California has long been that an annulment of marriage may be granted on the basis of fraud only “in an extreme case where the particular fraud goes to the very essence of the marriage relation.” (Marshall v. Marshall (1931) 212 Cal. 736, 739-740 [300 P. 816]; accord, Barnes v. Barnes (1895) 110 Cal. 418, 421-422 [42 P. 904].) Based on that settled rule, in this case we reverse a judgment granting an annulment to a wife whose husband, prior to the marriage, misrepresented his financial status and fraudulently induced her to invest in a business venture with him,…