Annulment FAQ in North Carolina
What is Annulment?
Annulment is a legal process that results in a marriage being null and void. When an annulment is granted by the court, the parties are no longer married under the law. When a marriage is annulled, it is as though it never existed. The marriage is void retroactively, meaning the marriage no longer exists, and the parties are in the same place they were prior to getting married.
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Note: This blog discusses the procedure and effects of a religious annulment, and how it differs from a legal annulment. Because the Catholic Church is by far the most common institution to provide/necessitate religious annulments, we have limited the discussion in this post to Catholic annulments for simplicity’s sake, but acknowledge that other institutions may have other procedures and views on the issue.
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