Annulment is different from divorce because it is more strict and long process. You might be waiting for more than ten years more or less. There is also a prescribe period in filing the petition for annulment. Only, declaration of nullity did not prescribe and can file depending on your free time or this is a lifetime period while annulment is prescribe and you cannot file a petition anymore if the period of filing is prescribe...
There must be a decision from your church if the marriage ceremony is a church wedding and solemnized by Minister, pastor or a church leader authorized to solemnized marriage.
If you are going abroad and be a citizen in a country, where divorce is legal and accepted. Then, you file a divorce to remarry again. You are still commit a crime of bigamy because you succeeding marriage is still valid. Law in the Philippines, is not authorizing divorce as a legal basis to be free and re-marry again. Remember, that you are still a Filipino and always in the range of this law.
There must be a decision from your church if the marriage ceremony is a church wedding and solemnized by Minister, pastor or a church leader authorized to solemnized marriage.
If you are going abroad and be a citizen in a country, where divorce is legal and accepted. Then, you file a divorce to remarry again. You are still commit a crime of bigamy because you succeeding marriage is still valid. Law in the Philippines, is not authorizing divorce as a legal basis to be free and re-marry again. Remember, that you are still a Filipino and always in the range of this law.
