Marriage Fraud Fraud re:Fam. Code, § 2210(d)
I thought that getting married for the second time would be better than the first marriage...
Boy, was I wrong!! Fraud (Fam. Code, § 2210(d)).
My second wife and I are currently going through an annulment/divorce. Right after her green card restrictions were lifted, my wife immediately abandoned our marriage. She lied and told me she is just visiting her mother for a week, but never returned. A week later, she told me over the phone that I am being investigated for molesting her adopted daughter, (her mother is alive and well in the Philippines). These allegations are false.
For months, (without my knowledge), my wife took her niece to the doctor while I was working swing shift. My mother and eldest daughter lived with me during our entire 3 year marriage. My wife would come home after 5 o'clock, pick up her niece, and she would come home around 8:00 or 9:00 p.m. at night. She lied and told my mom and my eldest daughter that she was just at the store shopping; however, I did not find out the truth until a week after she abandoned our marriage and told me this over the phone. (May I remind you that she did not confront me nor told anyone in my house about any accusations.) The social worker decided to drop the case because when the police arrived to question her niece, the niece ran away from the police and refused to cooperate. Social worker kept trying to conduct an interview with niece, but was unsuccessful.
In February 2009, when she found out I was filing for annulment/marriage fraud, she kept leaving me voicemails threatening to use molestation accusations to intimidate me if I try to annul the marriage.
FYI: Despite all this anxiety and stress, from the time she left - July 2008 to February 2009 - I asked her many times to come back and work things out with me; however, she refused. We are expected to return to court and this has been a long, exhausting, and stressful process just trying to annul this marriage. After all this, I realized how this woman manipulated and pressured me into marrying her during a vulnerable time (the time where my 25 year marriage with my first wife ended because she cheated on me) for a free ride and US Citizenship.
Please provide whether I have a strong annulment case that will or should be granted?