ROMAN CATHOLIC ANNULMENTS
By Richard Crouch, Attorney at Law, Crouch &
Crouch, Arlington, Virginia
Originally Published in Family Law News, a Va. State Bar Publication,
WINTER 1994 ISSUE
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Practitioners are sometimes asked where clients might go to
seek a Roman Catholic Church annulment of the marriage that they have civilly
dissolved by state-granted divorce. Such an annulment is necessary to make
available a second marriage which would be valid in the Catholic church
(being then a first marriage under Canon law). The tribunal of the Roman
Catholic Diocese of Richmond has published the 1992 edition of its highly
informative pamphlet "Understanding Annulments and the Annulment Process
in the Catholic Church." It is available from both offices of the Diocese,
the Richmond office at 811 Cathedral Place, Richmond, Virginia 23220, telephone
804-359-5661 and the Tidewater office at 155 West Government Avenue, Norfolk,
Virginia 23503, telephone 757-588-2941.
Note -- this notice is now many years old, so we suggest you call the
Diocese rather than sending away for the pamphlet by mail, to make sure
whether they still have it in stock.
Do not contact Crouch & Crouch about religious annulments --
we do not have any information about them.
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