I was going to jump into this thread earlier because my aunt got an annulment in the late 1940s (her husband met someone else) but I think it was money that got the annulment through. I don't know how long it took but she remarried in the church 20 years later. Grace ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 5:14 AM Subject: Re: [NYERIE] marriage annullment > There is Cannon Law and then there is actual practice. I've heard it said, > even by my mother, enough money and the right paperwork can get a marriage > annulled. Basically there are as maany reasons for an annulment as there > are for divorces. > > -------------- Original message -------------- > From: Jillaine Smith <[email protected]> > >> > Roman Catholic anulments typically were not given for infedility. >> > You have to prove that the marriage was based on a lie and therefore >> > the vowes made were false, so no marriage actually took place. >> >> Actually, the Roman Catholic church will annul a marriage for much >> less than that. >> >> I have intimate knowledge of a case where a non-Catholic couple >> married, had a child and legally divorced after 2-3 years. >> >> TEN YEARS LATER, the ex-husband wanted to marry a Catholic girl. The >> Catholic Church sent both the ex-wife and her parents a form >> requesting information about the nature of the first marriage. >> >> Retroactively, the Catholic Church annulled this marriage so the >> ex-husband could get married in a Catholic Church. I'm not sure what >> that made the child of this former marriage in the eyes of the >> Catholic church-- retroactively an out-of-wedlock child? >> >> Ironically, the man's marriage to the Catholic girl ended in divorce. >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in >> the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message