Divorced Catholic to remarry without annulment

I'm not one hundred percent sure. So someone correct me, if I'm wrong, but there are 2 kinds of annulments. The first is legal, which I think would be pretty hard for you to qualify for, now that it's been years, and usually they are only granted if the marriage is shorter than a certain amount of time, or one party can prove that the other party purposely was deceitful in their intentions. The second would be a catholic church annulment. I think that's the only one the church can be interested in and because you weren't married in the church originally, you couldn't get that one. So I would look into your issue a bit more.

This should have been brought up more than a month before.
Did you not mention your previous marriage to your priest when you initially met with him?
If you wait and don't bring it up until later, they may no longer recognize this marriage.
I would talk to your priest and get this figured out ASAP!

Uhhhhh you know what is a long process? Getting married! Did you not tell the priest you were married before? That is literally one of the first questions they have to ask.

If you were Catholic at the time, and were married outside of the Catholic church without the Catholic church's permission, you won't need a full-scale annulment. "For a person who was either Catholic or married to a Catholic, and did not marry according to the canonical form of marriage (in front of a Catholic priest or deacon with two witnesses), and if the Catholic Church's permission was not obtained for this marriage (called a 'dispensation from canonical form'), then the Church could process this case as a 'Lack of Form.' The Church calls this an administrative process." https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/resources/life-and-family/marriage/catholic-marriage-and-annulments You might wish to find out whether this process could be completed in a timely manner.

However, I agree with the others; I have no idea why the priest wouldn't have discovered and mentioned this issue before now.

Thank you all. I received what now is bad advice from a family member. they told me since the first marriage was outside of church I do not need to mention this to the priests because it would not conflict with the church marriage since it was not a sacrament.

I am now being told by a few people that I need maybe able to get a lack of form but how long that would take is uncertain.

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I was previously married in a Greek Orthodox Church and now getting remarried in a Catholic Church. I’m wondering if I need an annulment..
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