What steps are involved in Catholic churches divorce investigation?

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What steps are involved in Catholic churches divorce investigation?

Step one would be to get in touch with the local authorities in your own diocese on the subject of needs necessary to investigate your case by the diocesan marriage tribunal. Each diocese must have one. To make arrangements to see the person in charge of the marriage tribunal at at diocesan level simply contact the chancery at you local diocesan cathedral. Once contact has been made, your can arrange a meeting with one of the diocesan church officials and explain your situation in depth.

Here is not the please to list all the formalities that are going to be needed in this subject matter. It is a personal affair and as such it should be treated as such.

If you talk to your local parish priest, he can not do much more for you than letting you know who to get in contact with. The person in charge of the local marriage tribunal is always a Canon Lawyer and know the Churches rules in such matters.

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If you were a baptized Catholic at the time of your first marriage (or your putative wife was) and you did not have a dispensation from canonical form, the marriage is ordinarily invalid.

The total of the investigation should be verifying that fact the marriage occurred without dispensation of form and outside the Church.

Secondarily, before you can get married in the church, the Church would also need to confirm your current wife is free to marry in the Church. This would entail ensuring that any previous marriage was declared null.

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