What are the grounds for annulment in the Catholic Church?
• Most annulments are based on canon 1095, psychological reasons. These include a wide range of factors. Some of them may be misrepresentation or fraud (concealing the truth about capacity or desire to have children for example, or about an preexisting marriage, drug addiction, felony convictions, sexual preference or having reached the age of consent) • Refusal or inability to consummate the marriage (inability or refusal to have sex) • Bigamy, incest (being married to someone else, or close relatives) • Duress (being forced or coerced into marriage against one’s will or serious external pressure, for example a pregnancy) • Mental incapacity (considered unable to understand the nature and expectations of marriage) • Lack of knowledge or understanding of the full implications of marriage as a life-long commitment in faithfulness and love, with priority to spouse and children. • Psychological inability to live the marriage commitment as described above. • Illegal “Form of Marriage” (cer
