ok .. so I didn’t want to count on my memory. Here’s a link to the story of the Joe,Jr. ‘annulment that never was of the marriage that never was.’
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1634956,00.html
You are right: This is very complicated. We have two wonderful people in our church (United Methodist) who were divorced from their first spouse (both were Catholics). In order to marry, be members of a church and receive the sacraments, they joined a Protestant church. Between them, they had nearly a dozen children they raised together. Because of this ruling, the Catholic church lost two super people.