[af_vet_1981]

After my dad got his marriage annulled after 29 years and made me an official bastard ...

False, it does not change the status of any children of the marriage.

If a declaration of nullity is granted, are the children considered illegitimate?

No. A declaration of nullity has no effect on the legitimacy of children who were born of the union following the wedding day, since the child's mother and father were presumed to be married at the time that the child was born. Parental obligations remain after a marriage may be declared null.

[metmom]

False, it does not change the status of any children of the marriage.

If the children are legitimate, then the marriage was valid after all.

Ooops.....

FWIW, jcon, ALL marriages are valid. It's only Catholicism that cooked up that excuse for granting church sanctioned divorce.

afvet, intercourse sets up the one flesh union that binds a man and woman together. When a couple gets married depending on whatever is recognized as a culture, that sanctifies the one flesh union.

In the OT the penalty for any sexual activity outside of marriage was the death penalty, unless it was a single virgin man and a single virgin women. Then the penalty was that they had to marry.

[metmom]

Catholics just want to have their cake and eat it too.

What a convenient religion for people who want to divorce from their spouse without calling it divorce and incurring the judgment of sin, which is what breaking that one flesh union is.