re>My wife’s annulment was $500. I think you talked to the wrong tribunal.
I was in a certain diocese and they make the rules. Maybe it got cheaper after 1976 but I find that unlikely.
Took two years and cost $500. She showed me the receipts.
She would have gotten it sooner but the other party ignored all requests to provide his version of the relationship. She predicted this in her letter to the Church. They were both Catholic when they married and they were married in the Church, then he refused to go to Mass with her. Never going the first time. She had many letters from family and friends, attesting to her version of the marriage.