Wedding Forum - Annulment 2016 help please - Catholic...

Hi, hoping someone can help. Did anyone be granted an annulment? If so, on what grounds? I didn't realise how much was involved in this, my Fiancé is non catholic and non baptised and is legally divorced from his ex wife who is also non catholic. However I am catholic and baptised. If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated.

Have you spoken to the church?

Are you also divorced? If your h2b is not RC and neither is his ex then surely they wouldn't have been married in church, unless a different denomination? Therefore not married in the eyes of God? So is an annulment required? Unless you are divorced and were married in a Catholic Church, then you would need an annulment.

It is difficult to marry in a Catholic Church if one of you is divorced, it's not impossible though. I'd really advise speaking to your parish priest x

As you probably know there are strict criteria that you have to fulfill. All I can say is have patience with your priest he will be looking into it in great detail especially if he's not been in this situation before.

Just remember we are here if you need to vent any frustrations or if you need any other support/advice. It's a huge forum so more than likely there would be someone else that's been in a similar situation. All the best x

From what i understand from my friend who went through all this as her husband was divorced, it doesn't matter if it was in a catholic church, if the original marriage was in a church of any faith then although not recognised as such by the catholic church it is enough for them not to marry you. She was told it would take upto a year for the annulment if it was granted. They are pretty hard to get as the review board (for want of a better way to describe them) have to be convinced that there is some reason that the original marriage should have not been allowed, i.e lies on one parties part of violence/coersion.

I believe they went along the dishonesty line, but in all honesty it was looking highly unlikely that they would get anywhere. she was basically told that there was a 99% chance that it would be refused so in the end they got married somewhere else instead of delaying their wedding only to find out it wouldn't be allowed anyway. Some of her family were pretty upset to start with but most came around. I think the biggest struggle was her making her peace with it.

So many restrictions within the catholic church. We are in the same boat, we only have 9 months until our wedding and we are afraid of the delay in getting an answer for it to be a no anyway. My Fiancé has wrote his essay and will send it off to the marriage tribunal today and we can see how it goes. He doesn't even have any contact details for her as they have not spoken in over 7 years so that bit alone might be tricky for them to get in touch with her. Just very disheartening and disappointing :-(

I'm not sure specifically about the Catholic Church, but we married in a Greek Orthodox Church, and my husband was divorced, I've never married before. His priest gave him an eccliastical divorce form to fill in, and the eccliastical board held a meeting with him to grant/deny (sounds like the annulment you've mentioned).

He had to provide his decree absolut. The form asked for his wife's details so she could represent herself, but he hasn't had contact for years so he put Unknown.

The board asked him why he divorced (irrecoverable differences) and why he wished he to remarry, and how could he be sure it would work this time. He told them we'd been together a while and his mum went with him and told them how much she loves me (ahh, I love his mum).

The whole process cost £200 and they granted the eccliastical divorce.

I think the process will be similar for all Christian churches, although some are more strict than others in granting this. If they refuse, you can still marry, just not in church. Hope this helps.