“The reason for having a third-party investigation of a marriage is that the two parties usually do NOT know, at the beginning of the investigation, all the facts which can shed light on the question of validity.”
From what I’ve seen, their is no investigation...
I have a friend who’s husband got an annulment after a 35 year marriage with 5 kids. They had, BTW, renewed their wedding vows in the church 10 year before their divorce.
She was not contacted by any tribunal at all. She just got a letter from the Church that her marriage had been annulled. She had a terminal illness at the time of the divorce and the annulment pushed her over the edge and she died. So what did the tribunal investigate? I was the best man at their wedding and they never contacted me, and clearly they didn’t contact her...
So who you do think was sincere? The wife or the husband who left his wife and 5 kids after 35 years?
In your mind, was the marriage “sacramental” and indissoluble or not? If not, why did you agree to be best man to the scumbag?