Originally Posted by Steve.r
John,
So when you start annulment proceedings, is the legal and church option something that has to be stipulated? i.e.: if you want to (in my case) marry your Mahal, do you need to make sure that the church are informed and they do their bit as well as the other legal part? Or is it all done as part of the annulment as a 'whole'
Annulment means that the Marriage was VOID FROM THE START. That is the ONLY TIME the church will accept it is ANNULLED.
In almost all cases in Philippines the people seeking an 'annulment' are legally married, thus they are getting a DIVORCE by another name. It is a 'get around it' device, as they do not allow divorce, so they call it annulment but it is a DIVORCE, exactly as it is in countries which allow divorce.
