Question about Catholics and Divorce

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My friend’s parents got a divorce many months back and it made me really upset for the family. I was wondering if someone could explain Catholic rules on divorce?

They’ve been married for a long time, a rather traditional Catholic family, with 8 kids together and it was so sudden when she told me. She said they got counseling and tried not to fight around the kids but it still happened.
I guess I had thought that they could separate and perhaps divorce but they couldn’t date or marry again unless there was an annulment but now I’m not so sure. Is divorce EVER allowed for Catholics if there aren’t reasons that the marriage wouldn’t have been sacramental in the first place? I know some people say that not even adultery (I am not saying this happened) will warrant a divorce and promise to life celibately. I’m really confused.
 
I had a friend (God rest his soul) that was married twice, and it was not an impediment for him coming into the Church. If they are not getting re-married, don’t worry too much about it. They WOULD have to get an annulment if they wanted to get married again. And there’s no guarantee they would.
 
Divorce is a civil proceeding.

They would have to be civilly divorced to be able to even seek receive an annulment.
Generally, Tribunals will not proceed with an application until a civil divorce Decree Absolute has
been granted. This prevents information given in confidence to the Tribunal from being used in
divorce proceedings.
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Now there are many reasons that could be considered valid and some are outlined here:


Until/unless they seek an annulment they would be still considered married in the eyes of the Church.
 
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