Religious marriage is not dissolved,
although there is a civil divorce. The Catholic Church does not envisage such a
possibility.
If the marriage has been
religious, in addition to the civil proceedings will be necessary to start
another before the Ecclesiastical Courts to reverse the effect of the
link within the Church.
Canon law
The Church considers marriage
indissoluble links. But if we recognize the possibility that the marriage
was invalid, in which case its effects also disappear. It is believed that in
such cases the marriage was never occur.
The Canon Law specifies that
the reasons which may lead to the nullity of marriage should always be prior
to its conclusion, that is, they must be serious facts that were hidden in
one of the spouses or events which prevented the celebration.
For the ceremony to be valid
there must be prior marriage, and both spouses must go freely and have
sufficient capacity to judge the facts.
Grounds for
nullity
Failure to comply with these
basic principles nullify the marriage, but also other circumstances such as the
following:
· Not to possess old
enough: 16 years for men and 14 years for women.
· By existence of
consanguinity or affinity to the second grade between spouses.
· If one of the
spouses come to marriage with fear, coerced, forced or not knowing the
significance of their actions.
· If one spouse
concealed some trait of person to another and it may make married life.
· If one of the
spouses is not baptized or have a profession Catholic vote.
· If the marriage
had not been consummated or one of the spouses has prior inability to
consumarlo.
· If one or both
spouses do not have sufficient intellectual capacity to decide on their lives.
· If one of the
spouses has committed a crime or abduction in order to celebrate the marriage.
Remarks
Some of the causes that
impede or nullify the Catholic marriage can be acquitted by a papal
dispensation allowing the celebration. It is commonly granted, for example,
when the spouses do not belong to the same religion.
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