Exactly! How many kids did Teddy Kennedy have before he got his annulment? The church wants a lot of cash for an annulment and takes its own sweet time about it too. Believe me, I learned the hard way.
My wife of 20 years and myself were both granted annulments prior to us being married. There was a charge at the time. It was $600.00 for each of us. We were granted the annulment in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.
The number of kids in a marriage is irrelevant when the Church grants an annulment. An annulment simply says that the SACRAMENT of Matrimony wasn’t valid. It doesn’t say anything about the secular contract, which is dissolved by a civil divorce. Some folks say, incorrectly, that an annulment will make children of that marriage ‘bastards’. If a civil divorce doesn’t do that, neither will an annulment.