So, if you are not married in the church and you get a divorce and remarry, is it adultery? Serious question. I’m trying to understand
>>>So, if you are not married in the church and you get a divorce and remarry, is it adultery? Serious question. I’m trying to understand.<<<
That would be correct. Since in the eyes of the Church every marriage enjoys the favor that it is a valid marriage unless it is formally investigated and declared null. Non-Catholic marriages between two non-Catholics (male and female only) are regarded by the Church as valid.
The process of getting an annulment is either simple, or complicated. The simple annulment is granted in not much longer than a month. The Longer one generally takes witness testimony and evidence.
Simple ones can only be granted if one partner was Catholic before marriage, and that Catholic party clearly violated binding requirements which would otherwise become impediments to matrimony. For example, such as not being married by clergy, or in a Church without proper dispensations.
That’s the way it used to be, but now even if you get married at the JP and get divorced later...then remarry it is adultery.