Quetion regarding marriage and annulments

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Lets say a woman is married in the Catholic Church has two children with her husband. Lets say they get a divorce because they fight a lot and generally don’t get a long, but it’s a mutual decision. Can this women remarry? What would it take?
 
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Gregory24:
Lets say a woman is married in the Catholic Church has two children with her husband. Lets say they get a divorce because they fight a lot and generally don’t get a long, but it’s a mutual decision. Can this women remarry? What would it take?
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The woman would need to obtain an annulment of the marriage based on factors present or absent at the time of the wedding ceremony.

Either that, or wait until the husband dies.
 
What do you mean factors absent or present at the time of the marriage?
 
I mean there must have been something wrong with the marriage right from the very beginning. Something so very wrong that it invalidated the marriage.

Fighting a lot isn’t grounds for an annulment. Here is a list of grounds from EWTN.
 
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What do you mean factors absent or present at the time of the marriage?
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The marriage at the time the vows were made was either valid or invalid. It cannot become invalid because of later factors. That’s why any nullity investigation must investigate those factors that were or were not present at the time of the vows.

For example:

Was consent freely given, with neither party under force or holding anything back?

Did both parties know what they were commiting to?
Were they committed to permanence, fidelity, and openness to children?

Such matters can get rather complex, and are best referred to a marriage tribunal through the parish priest.
 
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