Question:

What are the causes of annulment of a marriage?

Response:

The causes can be divided into three categories: 

1) By reason of an invalidating canonical impediment, which was not (or could not be) dispensed, including: age, impotence, a prior marriage, disparity of religion, sacred orders, religious vows, abduction, crime, consanguinity, affinity, public propriety, and adoption.

2) By reason of a vice or defect of the matrimonial consent: lack of sufficient use of reason, grave defect of discretion of judgment, incapacity to assume essential obligations, ignorance of the nature of the marriage, error about the person or a quality, fraud or deceit, error that determines the will, simulated consent, conditioned consent, violence or serious fear, absence of the contracting parties, lack of externalization of the consent, legal incapacity of the procurator.

3) For lack of canonical form required for the validity of the marriage.

Fr. Miguel A. Fuentes, IVE

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