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Annulments, I thought, were for extreme cases—bigamy or incest, for instance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 18, 2015

Annulments require the church to investigate whether the marriage was valid in the first place according to church law or whether there were flaws at the time the vows were taken.

From Washington Post

Annulments are granted through a system of three ecclesiastical courts, the highest of which is the Rota in Rome, and for the following principal reasons: impotence, consanguinity, force and fear.

From Time Magazine Archive

Annulments are now so widespread that they are sometimes called "Catholic divorce."

From Time Magazine Archive