DIRIMENT IMPEDIMENT TO MARRIAGE

1. Age
2. Bond of previous marriage.
3. Impotence (must be perpetual and antecedent to the marriage)
4. Sacred Orders/ Perpetual vow of chastity
5. Abduction and Coercion
6. Crime – one of the parties has brought about the death of a spouse with a view of entering
marriage with each other.
7. Consanguinity and Affinity
8. Public Propriety – notorious concubinage
9. Adoption and Spiritual Relationship
10. Psychological immaturity or mental incapacity
11. Refusal to have children