[Georgia Girl 2]

“Please don’t peddle this crap. RFK, Jr. might be a Grade A #1 A$$, but contrary to popular opinion, folks don’t ‘pay off the Church’ to get an annulment”

You need to get real. I’m catholic and happy to be one but the truth is that if you have enough influence and cash you can get an annullment. RFK jr. managed to get the church to annul his 13 year marriage over the strenuous objections of his wife. I guess she felt like the marriage was valid all along.

Annullment in the catholic church basically says the marriage was never valid in the first place. There are four or five reasons you can use. Getting bored with wife #1 and wanting a younger model is not on the list. So for all intents and purposes that would make his kids illegitimate.

[SuziQ]

I know several people who have gotten annulments, and they are all of modest income. And there are some folks who have a lot of money which didn't do them any good, when facing the Marriage Tribunal. The Tribunals work very hard, and not all the cases before them end up in annulments.

And once again, the annulment of the SACRAMENT is a religious matter. The legitimacy of the children is conferred by marriage, and if divorce doesn't cause that legitimacy to be removed, neither does an annulment.