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Canon law (from Ancient Greek: κανών, kanon, a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority

society, the germs of saddest ruin for civil well-being.' Canon law makes no provision for divorce, but a declaration of nullity may be granted when the proof

civil divorce. The Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (CCEO), the body of Eastern Catholic canon law for the Eastern Catholic Churches, in Canon 780

most countries, monogamy is required by law, so divorce allows each former partner to marry another person. Divorce is different from annulment, which declares

In Catholic canon law, natural marriage is the covenant "by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and

religious legal systems for declaring a marriage null and void. Unlike divorce, it is usually retroactive, meaning that an annulled marriage is considered

solidify canon law, so the courts could resolve the numerous cases. These increasingly strict canon laws made it much more difficult to get divorced or have

Christian personal law or family law regulates adoption, divorce, guardianship, marriage and succession in India. The provisions of canon law concerning marriage

often entitled to the protections of a divorce for division of property and child custody. In Catholic canon law, there are a number of requirements for

Canon 915, one of the canons in the 1983 Code of Canon Law of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church, forbids the administration of Holy Communion to