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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]annulment= pay us a lot of money and we can make it go away. [/quote]

Any fees are meant to offset administrative costs and can be reduced or completely waived in cases of financial hardship. [/quote]

Uber wealthy man gets divorced after 25 years of marriage, which included three children from that marriage. Annulment is a sham.

My uncle another uber-rich, annulled after 6 kids 22 years of marriage. Sham.[/quote]

You simply don’t know what you’re talking about.

As noted upthread, nothing actually is “annulled” in a so-called “annulment” proceeding. To the contrary, a Declaration of Nullity is issued only after investigation, trial on the merits and a finding beyond a reasonable doubt that no “sacramental” marriage ever occurred. The grounds for such a finding can vary, and range from fraud/duress to mental incapacity to enter into a union that is lifelong, exclusive, and open to the possibility of offspring (the definition of a Christian marriage).

Hence, while acknowledging that there may have been a civil bond, the  persons you cite as evidence that annulment proceedings allegedly are a “scam” were in fact not ever “married” to begin with, at least not in the Christian sense of the word.  The duration of a putative marriage, and whether it produced children may be relevant to the parties’ state of mind at the time the marriage was entered into, but they are in no wise dispositive because what is at issue is whether the putative marriage was valid in the first instance.

Moving on to the ancient canard that “annulments” allegedly are bought and paid for, typically by the rich, this has never been true and certainly is not true now, Pope Francis having essentially ended the practice of asking parties to pay administrative and processing fees, (which typically were requested in any event on an “ability to pay” measure or as a voluntary contribution).[/quote]

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