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A church annulment, or more properly, a Declaration of Invalidity, is an acknowledgment that for a particular couple a canonically valid marriage was never achieved. Through the Ordinary Process, one of the parties of the marriage asks the Tribunal to examine their marriage in question based on the party's claim that their consent lacked something which marriage requires. Some of the requirements are that the consent flowed from an adequately developed intellect and will and involved permanence, fidelity, and openness to the possibility of children.
The Archdiocese of Milwaukee's Metropolitan Tribunal seeks to determine if there truly was something that prevented one or more of the required elements from being present at the time of consent, even though both individuals may have entered the marriage in good will.
Contact the Metropolitan Tribunal to begin the process or obtain records of a previous case.
