Religious Annulment - Divorce Encyclopedia

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Term Definition Religious Annulment - a decree from a religious body judging a marriage null and void.

Application in Divorce For a number of reasons, sometimes divorcing parties seek religious annulments.

In the eyes of the Catholic Church, marriage is an inviolate sacrament, so religious Catholics sometimes seek an ecclesiastical process by which the marriage is declare null and void and one which can take up to a year for an ecclesiastical court to rule upon.

In the eyes of the Church, an annulled marriage never really was, so the spouse was already married, the union is said to be void, or a nullity; that is, it never existed. By this route, in the eyes of the Church at least, the marriage is null and void.

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Religious annulments and divorces must also be accompanied by civil annulments and divorces. A religious civil court.