Some who know, with 100% certainty, that their previous marriage was NOT sacramentally valid resist or avoid the formal annulment process due to the instability of their previous spouse.
And these people HAVE NO VALID IMPEDIMENT TO REMMARIAGE!
However, the self righteous seem to have no problem with the phony, fraudulent “annulments” granted to people who did not deserve them. (The Kennedy family comes to mind).
I’ve never heard of anyone who doesn’t have a problem with the various Kennedys’ phony annulments whose name isn’t Kennedy.
Joe Kennedy’s ex-wife appealed the decision of the corrupt Archdiocese of Boston and Rome sided with her.
Still no idea who these “self-righteous” are who have no problem with phony annulments.
As for uncooperative or dangerous ex-spouses, any tribunal can handle such a situation. It certainly should not cause the process to come to a screeching halt.
Very often, people fail to speak up for themselves, and then blame someone else (like the tribunal) for failing to respond to the situation.
I have dealt personally with people who would not initiate the process at all, simply out of fear, or sloth, or something.
point of order. ANYONE who had married a Kennedy, by definition, didn’t marry a stable, sound person. The men, certainly are all mentally unstable, only seeing women as “playthings” just like Grandpa Joe who brought his whores (can you say whores on Free Republic?) home. Nope. I’d grant an automatic annulment to anyone who was ignorant enough to marry into that family.