divorce and annulment?

Question

what's the difference?

Answer 1

divorce through the state a church can annul a marriage

Answer 2

Divorce: the action or an instance of legally dissolving a marriage

Annulment: a judicial or ecclesiastical pronouncement declaring a marriage invalid

So basically a divorce means the marriage happened and now you are dissolving it.

An annulment means the marriage legally didn't happen because it was not valid, so you were never legally married if you get an annulment. By the way to get an annulment is rather difficult and you have to provide proof on reasons why the marriage could not be considered valid. Such as never consummating the marriage or if the spouse intentionally lied/hid something about themselves that would've prevented the other person from going through with the marriage.

By the way COURTS can also ANNUL a marriage, it's not just the Catholic church. Annulments by church are only done for Catholics after a review by the church's judiciary system.

Answer 3

Divorce is the process of legally ending a valid marriage. Historically it was because one party had breached the marriage agreement (in particular adultery).

Annulment is where a marriage is declared to have been invalid. Traditionally the church would annul a marriage because the couple had not engaged in sex. Henry VII had one marriage annulled on the basis of his wife being his brother's wife (or something like that). Some countries and jurisdictions have annulment. In one state of Australia a marriage can be annulled any time before 2 weeks. Other places, I don't know about.

Answer 4

The difference is that Divorce acknowledges that the marriage was legal and did exist.

Annulment nullifies the marriage totally (Makes it as though the marriage never existed.). Basically saying there was something that happened when the marriage happened that did not make it legal or correct under the eyes of God (depending if you getting a court annulment or a church annulment).

Answer 5

The Catholic church does not make money on annulments. I suggest to the particular poster that you do a little research on the religion you seem to hate.

Moving on; the difference is that divorce is a cease existence of a valid marriage; and an annulment states that there never was one from the beginning, considering that some things were not fulfilled to make it one.

And the state does indeed annul marriages; not just the church.

Answer 6

A divorce is a legal separation and the ending of a marriage.

An annulment means that the wedding is not valid, for example because the bride was too young or she was related to her husband.

Jennie

Answer 7

Divorce: "when the Court ends an otherwise legal marriage as of a specific date."

Annulment: "is the process by which a Court states that a marriage never legally existed. An annulment must be based on mental illness, fraud, forced consent, physical incapacity to consummate the marriage, lack of consent to underage marriage or bigamy."

Answer 8

Divorce is a legal ending of a marriage by the state;

An annulment is an official acknowledgement from the Catholic Church that "A marriage never existed in spirit between the partners, and thus is void".

The Catholic Church will refuse to marry a Catholic for a second time, unless the first marriage is annuled.

Answer 9

In a divorce you are ending a legally valid marriage.
When you annul a marriage you are saying that there was a legal defect that made the marriage invalid, these usually tend to be about consent. Since the marriage was invalid to begin with there was no marriage. But the invalidity does not arise automatically when the defect occurs, but rather when one of the spouses claims it. If no one claims that the marriage is invalid and can be annulled, then it is valid regardless of how many defects there are.

Answer 10

With an annulment, the marriage never happened, but you can only get one under certain circumstances.