after being married in the church, having 3 children and a marriage that lasted 20 yrs. I left my wife have gotten a divorce and have recently gotten remarried again......I want to do all the church requires of me now with my new wife...can I get an annulment from the first.....thanks chuck

-- Chuck Arnold Jenks (cjenks@carolina.rr.com), December 13, 2002

Answers

Response to I am remarried,but want an annulment from first marriage

If there was a serious problem at the time of your first marriage, which prevented that marriage from being a valid marriage, yes. Otherwise, no. An annulment is a statement that a marriage was invalid from the start, because of a serious impediment that existed at the time of the wedding. If the marriage was not invalid then, nothing that happens later can make it invalid.

-- Paul (PaulCyp@cox.net), December 13, 2002.

Response to I am remarried,but want an annulment from first marriage

You need to ask a priest who you can trust.

-- Joe Biltz (joebiltz@netzero.net), December 15, 2002.