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A MAN who claimed he was forced into marriage by his girlfriend after she promised she'd terminate her pregnancy has been granted a divorce after a judge found he'd been "under duress" when he agreed to wed her.
The unnamed couple were in an on-off relationship for six years from 2004, and lived together for six months in 2008.

In seeking a divorce after less than year of marriage, the man referred to a part in the Marriage Act that states the union "is void in circumstances where the consent of either (person) is not a consent freely given as it was obtained under duress."