Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.34075/cs.57.3.1
Proceedings for Declaring Marriage Invalid Initiated at the Church Interdiocesan Court in Split from 2000 to 2020.
Gina Šparada
orcid.org/0000-0003-4456-9912
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Split, Split, Croatia
Dijana Mihalj
orcid.org/0000-0003-2229-9149
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Split, Split, Croatia
Abstract
The paper is based on the investigation of over 1000 lawsuits for the declaration of marriage invalid initiated at the Church Interdepartmental Court in Split between 2000 and 2020. In order to collect all the necessary information for the conduct of the research, the court's registry book and the registers of all litigation, including those in the archives, were analysed. The materials were analysed individually and data were collected on the canons under which the proceedings were conducted, on the years of litigation, and on the personal data of the parties, presented then in an anonymous and aggregated manner. Descriptive statistics methods were used.
The paper consists of a theoretical part and methodology, which includes the motive of the research, the description of the sample used and the criteria of inclusion, materials, methods and procedures of research, and the presentation of the results, together with the discussion of the results, and the implications for their practical application.
Keywords
marriage; Church Court; Split; litigation; declaration of invalidity
Hrčak ID:
281805
URI
Publication date:
26.9.2022.
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