2006-10-05 10:40:23 · 7 answers · asked by mei-lin 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
So you would get a Catholic annulment and a legal divorce?
2006-10-05 10:56:01 · update #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.
The procedure is the same whether or not there are children in the marriage. If a declarations of nullity is granted then the children are still considered legitimate and retain all legal rights.
With love in Christ.
2006-10-05 16:29:17 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
An annulment is a declaration that a sacramental marriage did not exist from the beginning.
In order for a marriage to be valid, the two people must be mature enough to enter into a lifelong marriage, been serious about committing to a lifelong marriage, and been able to enter into the marriage of their own free will with no pressure to get married. A marriage may be considered invalid if one partner withheld information about himself or herself that would have made the other person change his or her mind.
Just because a marriage is consuimated or brought forth children does not mean the marriage was valid. A couple can have sex and children without getting married.
An annulment has no effect on the legal status of children from a marriage. The children are not declared illegitimate if the couple's marriage is annulled.
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2006-10-05 17:48:16 · answer #2 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You're confusing a legal annulment with a religious one. The two are Nothing alike.
A legal annulment happens when the marriage was never "consumated." Some folks have wrangled this kind of annulment even when they had kids. They refused paternity tests and said the kids weren't theirs.
A religious annulment means there was no spiritual union. Nothing to do with the flesh at all.
The church looks at a marriage and decides if there was ever a true union in the spiritual sense. It does not, as a legal annulment does, mean they were never married. It means they never had a spiritual union.
2006-10-05 17:46:44 · answer #3 · answered by Max Marie, OFS 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The above are correct but I think it might help you to have some examples.
The most extreme example would be a shot gun wedding, where someone was forced to marry due to pregnancy or because parties pressured them. Such a compulsion makes the arrangement non-freely entered into. That does not mean God did not act but it does cast doubt onto it and subsequent behavior will be important.
Another example would be if one or both of the parties were addicted to drugs and loved the drugs more than the other party or any other party.
Another example is called the Pauline priviledge and comes from the apostle Paul. It occurs where one person is baptized and the other not. It is for interfaith marriages that turn out to be unworkable.
Yet another example is the Petrine privledge and comes from the apostle Peter and occurs when neither party is baptized at the time of the wedding and so could not mean to enter into a Christian marriage.
You can be sacramentally married without ever stepping into a Church and likewise stepping into a Church and saying vows there does not make it sacramental. It is the intent of the parties to make God the center of their marriage that makes it sacramental.
2006-10-06 07:48:05 · answer #4 · answered by OPM 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It would vary on a case-by-case basis. I'm no cannonist, so I might be a bit off here, but I have a feeling that it would be a harde case to prove, since getting an annulment means that the marriage was never sacramentally valid to begin with.
2006-10-05 17:42:59 · answer #5 · answered by Church Music Girl 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Annulment is about determining if the marriage is a sacrament, not if a couple is fertile. I know of a nine year old who got pregnant, that does not make her capable of joining into the mature "vow" resulting in an actual "marriage".
2006-10-05 17:45:19 · answer #6 · answered by NoPoaching 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2006-10-05 17:49:11 · answer #7 · answered by wisdom 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋