Validation of marriage

In Catholic canon law, a validation of marriage or convalidation of marriage is the validation of a Catholic putative marriage. A putative marriage is one when at least one party to the marriage wrongly believes it to be valid.[1] Validation involves the removal of a canonical impediment, or its dispensation, or the removal of defective consent.[2][3] However, the children of a putative marriage are legitimate.[4]

  1. ^ can. 1061, 3 CIC/83
  2. ^ can. 1156, 1 CIC/83
  3. ^ Wm. Woestman, Canon Law of the Sacraments for Parish Ministry, 2007, 355
  4. ^ Wm. Woestman, Canon Law of the Sacraments for Parish Ministers, 2007, 278.

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