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A resident of Kazakhstan's Zhambyl region accidentally discovered he was supposedly married to a woman he dated 34 years ago and filed a lawsuit to have the marriage annulled, Tengrinews.kz reports.
According to the case file, in 1991, the man dated a woman and planned to start a family. However, the relationship ended four months later. The marriage was never registered with the Civil Registry Office, the parties never signed the marriage documents, and no marriage certificate was issued.
After their breakup, each of the former lovers went their separate ways: in 1994, the woman entered into a legal marriage with another man, and the man married another woman in 2021.
In 2025, a man discovered a marriage registration record with his ex-girlfriend in 1991 in the "Government Services" section of his banking app. He went to court to annul the fictitious marriage.
During the trial, it was established that the signatures on the marriage certificate did not belong to either the plaintiff or the defendant, but were affixed by a third party. The original civil registration book for 1991 was destroyed after the retention period expired.
The court questioned witnesses, including a close friend and neighbor of the plaintiff, who confirmed that the marriage had never been registered and that no documents had been signed by the parties. A representative of the civil registry office did not appear at the hearing.
The court found that the marriage registration was carried out in gross violation of the law: the parties were not present in person during the ceremony, and "remote marriage" is not provided for by law. The marriage certificate was declared invalid.
