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from: BOB KLAHN
date: 2003-08-09 12:24:12
subject: [R_Catholic-L] Mental Patients

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>> SMB>  To say nothing of how I think mentally ill persons are not
>> > considered CAPABLE of validly marrying.   And, of course,
>> > the very act of hospitalizing the insane would prevent any
>> > attempt for others to marry them.
>>
>> BK> Not necessarily. Maybe make it more difficult. You have
>> the ight to be married even if you are hospitalized. As to
>> marriage, that would be a matter of state law.
>>
 Rc>  BUT, can a clinically and literally insane person VALIDLY
 Rc>  marry?  I don't think either canon or civil law agrees that
 Rc>  a lunatic is COMPETENT to marry.

 Right. It's not the hospitalization that would stop the
 marriage, but the incompetence that led to the hospitalization.

BK>>> I could well imagine refusing marriage on the basis that the
>> person is clearly not in his right mind...that would be a given.
>> However, there are a lot of strange state laws.
>>

 Rc>  There are some very peculiar laws out there! 

 Rc>  Pax tecum.  Sean








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