[Twink]

Not true. Annullments (sp) no longer, if they ever did, make the children bastards.

One of my problems with anullments is the fact it voids the first marriage, as if it never existed when it did exist. And some can get annullments more easily than others. And does anyone really believe that God forgets about that first marriage?

I know people who waited years to get an anullment (sp) and people who got one just because they knew somebody. That one Kennedy, the one who slept with the teen babysitter, got an annullment pretty quickly. I recall some of the brouhaha about that. I also know people who waited years to get married because their partner had a tough time getting an annullment.

[goat granny]

Have to disagree, a marriage that never happened means the offspring are bastards..Especially if the first marriage was declared null and void. Check out the dictionary definition of a bastard. Off spring of one never married...annulment is voiding a marriage. Offspring not legit.

Unless there is some catholic defination of bastard other than the dictionary......