Can you stand *another* annulment question?

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Me, again:wave:

We have all of the documentation for my husband’s annulment either in hand or in transit. (His first wife had a prior bond.)

On the form for the petition, it asks “Was your former spouse’s first spouse Catholic” and “How do you know this?”

Well, we have no idea whatsoever. He was not a practicing Catholic, but I don’t think that matters, does it?

Should he put down “I do not know”?

Also, my husband is really concerned that the Tribunal will investigate whether or not his first wife’s first marriage was valid in the eyes of the Church. My own understanding is that (unless he was Catholic) the marriage was presumed to be valid by the proper documents, and that if she (his ex-wife) wants the first marriage nullified, she would have to initiate that seperately. Which is correct?

Thanks!
 
simply no way on this forum to give an answer on a specific case. work through the form with your pastor or the person he designates, often a deacon, to assist with this application.
 
This sounds like something a canon lawyer would have to answer.
 
Puzzleannie is absolutely correct. Work with the person assisting you and the tribunal. The tribunal will sort all of that out. (And that’s my recommendation as a canon lawyer who has had to evaluate cases virtually identical to the two situations you portray.)
 
Hi, John Cameron.

Just speaking generally, then, without referring to any specific case, are there circumstances where a Tribunal would turn a documentary case into a formal case? Wouldn’t they reject the documentary case and it have to be re-initiated as a formal case?

And do Tribunals even do formal investigations of marriages that are not the one presented (ie–was there some defect in the consent of the first marriage when the case is about the second)?
 
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