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With an annulment, the Catholic Church examines a the original marriage contract to see if it was entered into and executed validly, that is, the Church examines to see if there was ever a marriage at all. If it is discovered that there were impediments to the marriage, then a valid marriage was not entered into and so was not preformed. Therefore the two parties are single, and have always been so (unless one of them was in a previous marriage to the one examined, which is itself an impediment). A divorce does not examine the validly of a marriage. Whether it is valid or not, the state simply declares it void. Divorces are not recognized by the Catholic Church.

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Annulment and divorce:

These are ideas founded in history based on Religious law.

Annulment is granted for persons who have had no real legal intermingling of lives. (in the past the concept of consummation was used exclusively)

A divorce is for couples that have had a period of marriage and have legal, financial and other ties to sort out.

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A divorce formally ends a legal marriage. An annulment, if granted by the church, says the marriage was never valid in the first place, due to a multitude of reasons ( emotional abuse, drugs, pre-existing conditions of which one was unaware, etc). If granted, that would allow mariage in the church.

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