In re Marriage of Johnston

In In re Marriage of Johnston (1993) 18 Cal.App.4th 499, the wife secured an annulment because she was unaware of the husband's severe drinking problem, for which he refused to seek help, until after the marriage. She also testified he refused to work after the marriage, their sex life after marriage was unsatisfactory, and he had become dirty and unattractive. "In short, he turned from a prince into a frog." ( Id. at p. 500.) This court reversed concluding that even when "the husband turned out to be, in the eyes of his wife, a lazy, unshaven disappointment with a drinking problem," his were not misrepresentations that went to the "very essence" of the marital relation and fraud sufficient for annulment had not been shown. ( Id. at p. 502.)