Sentence examples for annulment cases from inspiring English sources

Nearly half of the total annulment cases in the world come from the United States, thanks in part to its well-functioning tribunal system.

Observers say a likely compromise is the streamlining of annulment cases, providing more people with the option of having a church court declare that the union was invalid and therefore not a real marriage.

Most family courts do not handle divorce, separation, or annulment cases, although the civil courts occasionally refer such cases to the family court to determine child custody or modification of alimony payments.

The new reforms might speed up the U.S. numbers further, though the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University has noted that the overall number of annulment cases in the U.S. and globally has dropped, as the world's population ages and the number of marriages celebrated in the church has declined.

Mrs. B. workd a good deal on wills, divorce, annulment & custody cases, & also on real-estate matter She is the daughter of Arthur Lehman, a niece of former Gov. Lehman.

The judge, said Ségolène Royal, the former Socialist presidential candidate, would never have agreed to the annulment had a case about false virginity been brought by a woman.

But on Friday all of the shell-shocked parties in this long-running crime story learned that guilt had not been accepted by Italy's highest court, which issued an annulment of the case against Knox, an American citizen, and her Italian former boyfriend, Sollecito, late on Friday after 10 hours of deliberation.

They also reduce the first tribunal to one member of the clergy and allow local bishops to fast-track the annulment process in certain cases — for example, petitions not contested by a spouse.

Many dioceses have church tribunals capable of handling just matters like marriage annulments, and not penal cases.

And that does not include the marriage annulments, clerical sex abuse cases and other church law matters that come before the Vatican's ecclesiastical courts.

Monsignor Magee belongs to the Galloway Diocese and now heads the Scottish Interdiocesan Tribunal, dealing with marriage annulments and canon law cases like Father Lawson's.