What are the reasons needed to obtain an Annulments?
A. 5. The Catholic Church, according to the Canon Law, provides three main reasons as to why a true and valid marriage did not exist in a previous union. Those reasons are: a. There was a lack or defect of what is called “canonical form.” All persons who have been baptized in the Catholic Church, or who have been received into the Catholic Church after their baptism in another Christian denomination, and who have not left the Catholic Church by a formal act, are bound to “canonical form.” Canonical form means that the parties were married in the presence of a properly delegated priest or deacon and two witnesses, following the rites of the Catholic Church. Therefore, if a Catholic decides to get married before a Justice of the Peace or before a Protestant Ministry without first obtaining permission (called a dispensation) from the Bishop of the Diocese, then that marriage is not valid according to the Catholic Church because of its “lack of form.” b. There was an impediment to the marr
