re: #529 Catttt
I am thinking that’s what my mom did. She converted when she and my daddy decided to marry. She had been divorced, and iirc, she got a dispensation. It took a while, however, and the good father at Saint Mary’s married them ahead of time, in a very small, quiet ceremony, because he knew they didn’t want to be apart.
I believe that what your mother applied for and got is what I’m talking about. A finding of “nullity” of the previous marriage that was not in the Church. Anyhow - that’s what I was advised as re: my previous marriage which was not in the Church.