Application for annulment refused, help please

[Meela]

Yes there are lots that have been down that road (I have read too many cases in the law firm I worked before in the Philippines)

If it is null and void from the start and one party knows about it...petition of annulment should be filed straight away !!

Why wait for years and live together as husband and wife knowing your marriage is obtained by force/fraud?

Sorry but I do not understand if you are referring to Annulment in the church, or the legal process through the courts.. I would like to know the experience of annulment by the church, including the cost in the Manila diocese, and the length of time it took.

[sars_notd_virus]

Sorry but I do not understand if you are referring to Annulment in the church, or the legal process through the courts.. I would like to know the experience of annulment by the church, including the cost in the Manila diocese, and the length of time it took.

Sorry if you don't understand, that is why I gave you links to read and help you understand about Annulment in our country, The Philippines!!

Now, in reply to your post no.14:

You need to be legally annulled by the civil court before you can file a petition in a church tribunal for your church annulment.

The cost is, of course, twice as expensive, because you file two petitions - one for the Civil Court and, if granted, another for the church tribunal. It will take longer knowing the legal process in the Philippines.

If I may ask, why would you like a church annulment? Do you want to re-marry again in the Catholic Church with your British boyfriend?

[sars_notd_virus]

I would like to know the experience of annulment by the church, including the cost in the Manila diocese, and the length of time it took.

Btw, you might also be interested to read this:

Pope announces annulment reform

http://www.italianinsider.it/?q=node/2581

[Meela]

Sorry if you don't understand, that is why I gave you links to read and help you understand about Annulment in our country, The Philippines!!

A somewhat pretentious comment, tantamount to saying you think I do have the capacity to comprehended the law of annulment. Incredible.

However, your next post is of extreme interest. Thank you for drawing my attention to it.

[sars_notd_virus]

A somewhat pretentious comment, tantamount to saying you think I do have the capacity to comprehended the law of annulment. Incredible.

However, your next post is of extreme interest. Thank you for drawing my attention to it.

Your Welcome !!

[johncar54]

Sars QUOTE You need to be legally annulled by the civil court before you can file a petition in a church tribunal for your church annulment.

I have been thinking about that and I cannot understand the logic.

Just for simplicity, let imagine that the ‘priest’ was in fact an actor, but that was not discovered until after the ‘marriage’ had been registered with CFA. The couple would not have been married, so how could a court dissolve what never happened ?

In the case where a person was not married, i.e. annulment as defined by the church, any registration they made with DFA would have been in error, a mistake. Thus what would be required, is the correction of that error. If DFA had known the person was not married they would not have made any record.

If, as you say, one must get a so called annulment in the court first before going to the church for annulment, the situation is preposterous, as one would be asking for an annulment when there was no valid marriage as it was void ab inito (that is void from the start, it never happened).