Remarriage After Annullment

[annsni]

Let's say Bob is married to Cindy and he leaves her and starts another life without divorcing Cindy and marries Janice. Janice eventually finds out and she leaves Bob and gets an annulment from a judge because her marriage is invalid because Bob is still married to Cindy. Is Janice free to marry someone else?

That means that Cindy was never married to Bob.

 

[annsni]

I don't think some cases of divorce automatically prohibit remarriage so certainly duress would qualify.

I agree. Even Jesus put an "except for" in His instructions on divorce.

 

[Jerome]

Let's say Bob is married to Cindy and he leaves her and starts another life without divorcing Cindy and marries Janice. Janice eventually finds out and she leaves Bob and gets an annulment from a judge because her marriage is invalid because Bob is still married to Cindy. Is Janice free to marry someone else?

That means that Cindy was never married to Bob.

You mean Janice?

 

[12strings]

That means that Cindy was never married to Bob.

Yes, Ann, re-read your post, then read Jerome's...I think you got the story mixed up. :laugh:

I would agree that JANICE is not married to Bob if Bob is still married to Cindy. So that case would be one where an annulment is simply recognizing the fact that the marraige was not valid in the first place...different than divorce. (Another example might be if some sick dad gives away his 12 year old daughter to an older man to marry...that could be annulled.)

 

[annsni]

You mean Janice?

LOL - Yeah. That's what I get for posting in the middle of chaos in my kitchen!!

 

[FR7 Baptist]

That means that Janice was never married to Bob.

Which is my whole point and is why there is an annulment and not a divorce.

 

[saturneptune]

Annullment is divorce by another name.

The RCC is an expert and manipulating those two words to match their doctrine and a fee to the local priest. I would think most Baptists pastors, when considering whether to perform a remarriage or second marriage, would treat anullment and divorce the same.

 

[Jerome]

Civil annulments based on fraud, bigamy, etc., are one thing.

Catholic 'not a divorce wink wink' annulments are another.

 

[saturneptune]

Being married only once now for thirty five plus years, I have always wondered what criteria Baptist pastors use to determine if they will perform a remarriage or second marriage. Since churches are autonomous, there are probably many different opinions of what is required to perform such a ceremony. On top of that, each situation is different. I have known a few pastors that pretty much will not marry somenone a second time.

 

[annsni]

Which is my whole point and is why there is an annulment and not a divorce.

But how can you annul what never was?

 

[annsni]

My husband performed a wedding between a man who was a widower and a woman who was divorced. The woman had a Biblical divorce in that her "pastor" husband left her for an adulterous relationship, he filed for the divorce and it was finalized years before. She was abandoned by an adulterer. He had since passed away. My husband had no issues with the wedding.