Anyone Catholic and can explain this to me?

That's a very odd request. Most times a doctor's note is to establish capacity of parties. Basically to say if you are of sound mind to perform certain tasks, but that isn't required unless someone is a minor with consent, or has a diminished capacity. In this case, notes would be used for divorce rather than a marriage, so I don't understand why it is a requirement.

If you choose to end your arrangement down the road, annulments are very hard to get and yes, usually you can only get them for special circumstances i.e.; abuse, one-sided circumstances like adultery, complete personality change, etc. But actually, a bishop is the only one to read cases and decide annulments so your local priest wouldn't be able to make that decision. They would hear your case should you annul but can't actually make the decision. Annulments are only important if you are quite religious and would want to remarry within the church, so if that's not a concern for you, don't worry about that part.

Perhaps the note is a diocese requirement? I'd be asking more about why you need to provide proof of capacity before you go ahead and do it.

View quoted message The Catholic Church usually doesn’t shun or expel you for this. They usually just don’t recognize the divorce in the church. So if you got married again they wouldn’t perform the legal ceremony. This stance is starting to change and more catholic churches are relaxing their view on divorce.

View quoted message Thats actually great! That’s not a common occurrence from what I know of the religion but I’m also not catholic, it’s my fiancé’s family that is and that’s what he’s told me of it. So, I don’t know all the ins and outs. I know his aunt only got one after claiming emotional abuse.

View quoted message Really? That’s weird, because My Mom got an Annulment from my dad and they are divorced. She is still allowed in our church and so are we, her children.

Don’t know about the doctors note but honestly you wouldn’t be able to get an annulment in the Catholic Church unless under extreme circumstances. They don’t believe in divorce. That doesn’t mean you can’t legally get one, just you wouldn’t exactly be accepted back into the Catholic Church afterwards.

Anglican here, but that does seem odd. Our Reverend/church required us to have one professional counselling session to make sure there were no 'red flags' that she didn't see in our relationship, but we don't need a medical note.

Bizarre.

I know back in the day, you had to have a blood test to get a marriage license, to prove you weren't related (you no longer have to).

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Hmmm. Maybe it’s just my Priest, thanks ladies!

I'm not Catholic, but that sounds super bizarre.

That seems really odd to me. They almost always require counseling before where they make sure your not going into marriage willingly and give you tools to deal with the challenges of marriage. When you get married in the church they really want to make sure your both

We had some questions about mental health in our initial questionnaire they sent us but they were used to see how we deal with stress only. I’ve never heard of them requiring a mental health evaluation from a doctor.

I’ve honestly never heard of getting a note from a doctor but I know when you’re married in a Catholic church, it is VERY difficult to get an annulment. I’m Catholic and have honestly never heard of the note from a doctor