“As if they never happened.”
Affairs?
Legally, an annulment means that there never was a marriage in the first place.
My ex married a guy who turned out to be a pathological liar.
While they were married she got pregnant.
She discovered her husband’s pathological lies shortly thereafter.
She retained council and had the marriage annulled.
Note that an annulment means that the marriage never actually happened, yet she still needed an attorney to sort out something that legally never happened.
Then her daughter was born. She wisely refused to name him on Darling Daughter’s birth certificate.
Years later we met and married.
I adopted Darling Daughter.
Now consider my daughter’s case, although her parents were married when she was conceived, she was retroactively a bastard at birth, as her parents had never been married, even though they had. When I adopted her, she became retroretroactively born in wedlock, and I retroactively was added to her birth certificate, making me the birth father of record by immaculate conception 3 years before her mom and I ever met.