marriage annulment process, grounds for it in catholic church?

Answer 1

The Catholic Church believes that God does not recognize civil divorces.

"Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate." (Mark 10:9)

However there may be hope of a declarations of nullity.

The term "annulment" is a misnomer because the Church does not undo or erase a marriage bond.

Rather the Church issues a declaration of nullity when it discovers that the parties were not truly joined by God and hence a full spiritual sacramental marriage as understood by the Church was not present.

Then the parties are free to marry for the first time.

Grounds for nullity include:
+ Either one or both of the spouses were not baptized persons during the time of marriage
+ An unauthorized marriage by a Catholic before someone other than a designated priest or deacon
+ A marriage where one of the spouses had an impediment such as a previous marriage and civil divorce
+ A marriage where there was a deficiency in consent or the ability of one or both the spouse

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Ignorant non-Catholics always say, "All you need is enough money". This is because they ARE ignorant and the ARE non-Catholics. You'd think they check it out before showing their ignorance, again.

The Roman Catholic Church often requires a couple to go to counselling, if the situation in the marriage isn't life-threatening or against the Ten Commandments.

The serious grounds of secular divorces, such as adultery and physical abuse, are the same in the Roman Catholic Church for annulment.

Another situation is when one partner has "decided" he/she doesn't want children. At pre-Cana counselling, the couple agree to have children and if one of them didn't want children then, he/she should have said so. If that partner "decides" after the wedding that he/she doesn't want children and the other partner does, the one who does can file for an annulment.

Google newadvent.com for more information on annulment in the Roman Catholic Church.

Answer 3

It's apparently pretty complicated and arbitrary.
I have never been Catholic, but my ex was. She was the only one who wanted the divorce and I, thinking divorce was wrong, only signed papers I was legally bound to sign at the end. She was in so much of a hurry to marry her new man (in a non-Catholic ceremony) that she got the divorce completed before the financial settlement was finished.
I wrote up the annulment questionnaire and they kept wanting more and more.
I didn't stop the process until I met my amazing non-Catholic second (although I detest even acknowledging the first) wife and decided the whole thing was no longer worth the effort.
Fortunately, they gave me all my $400 back.

Answer 4

Consanguinity
Insanity precluding ability to consent
Not intending, when marrying, to remain faithful to the spouse (simulation of consent)
One partner had been deceived by the other in order to obtain consent, and if the partner had been aware of the truth, would not have consented to marry
Abduction of the woman, with the intent to compel her to marry (known as raptus), constitutes an impediment as long as she remains in the kidnapper's power. (In theory, the abduction of a man also constitutes an impediment, but no man has applied for annulment on these grounds.)
Failure to adhere to requirements of canon law for marriages, such as clandestinity
the couple killed the spouse of one of them in order to be free to marry
the couple committed adultery, and one of the couple killed the spouse of one of them, in order to be free to marry

Answer 5

Heck it seems like these days all you have to have is enough money and you can get an annulment.