Is Disability Impediment to Valid Marriage

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Is not being able to financially support a wife and future children due to a disability an impediment to a valid marriage? I’m not interested in whether such a marriage would be imprudent from a practical standpoint; I want to know whether it would impact the validity.
 
No it wouldn’t, not for that reason.

If the disability caused permanent impotence, such that the marriage could not be consummated., that would be an impediment.

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Is not being able to financially support a wife and future children due to a disability an impediment to a valid marriage? I’m not interested in whether such a marriage would be imprudent from a practical standpoint; I want to know whether it would impact the validity.
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Perhaps, if there was an approved prior condition to the marriage about the past or at the time of the celebration of it.
CIC (Latin Canon Law)
Canon 1102.1 Marriage cannot be validly contracted subject to a condition concerning the future.
Canon 1102.2 Marriage entered into subject to a condition concerning the past or the present is valid or not, according as whatever is the basis of the condition exists or not.
Canon 1102.3 However, a condition as mentioned in 1102.2 may not lawfully be attached except with the written permission of the local Ordinary.
Canon 1084.1 Antecedent and perpetual impotence to have sexual intercourse, whether on the part of the man or on that of the woman, whether absolute or relative, by its very nature invalidates marriage.
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No , not based on your concerns noted.
 
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Poor people may validly marry, there is no income requirement for marriage.
 
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