PreNuptial Investigation for Catholics in New Jersey

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- Parish Site of Prenuptial Investigation REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- Name of Parish (City/Town) REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- GROOM'S NAME REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- Groom's current address REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- City/State REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- Home or Cellular Phone Number REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- Email REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter an email address.
- Religion REQUIRED Please fill out this field.
- Current Parish REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- Occupation REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- Age REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- Number of Prior Marriages REQUIRED Please fill out this field.
- BRIDE'S NAME REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- Bride's current address REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- City/State REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- Email REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter an email address.
- Home or Cellular Phone Number REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- Religion REQUIRED Please fill out this field.
- Current Parish REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- Occupation REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- Age REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- Number of Prior Marriages REQUIRED Please fill out this field.
- Proposed Date for the Marriage REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter a date.
- Proposed Time for the Marriage REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- Proposed Church/Site for the Marriage REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- City and State of Proposed Marriage REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- Name of Pastoral Minister Preparing Couple REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- GROOM'S Father's Name REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- Religion REQUIRED Please fill out this field.
- If Catholic, which Rite? REQUIRED Please fill out this field.
- GROOM'S Mother's name (include Maiden) REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- Religion REQUIRED Please fill out this field.
- If Catholic, which Rite? REQUIRED Please fill out this field.
- GROOM: Were you baptized? REQUIRED Yes: CATHOLIC (Baptismal Certificate within last 6 months required) Yes: PROTESTANT (Copy of Baptismal Certificate required) No (Two affidavits or freedom are required: Form A-1) Please fill out this field.
- GROOM: Are you related to the bride by blood (kinship)? REQUIRED Yes No Please fill out this field.
- GROOM: Are you related to the bride as an in-law to her? REQUIRED Yes No Please fill out this field.
- GROOM: Are you related to the bride by adoption? REQUIRED Yes No Please fill out this field.
- GROOM: Were you ever ordained a priest or deacon? REQUIRED Yes No Please fill out this field.
- GROOM: Did you make a profession in a religious order? REQUIRED Yes No Please fill out this field.
- GROOM: Have your parents expressed opposition to this wedding? REQUIRED Yes No Please fill out this field.
- GROOM: Do you want to enter a truly Christian Marriage: one that is permanent, exclusive and open to children? REQUIRED Yes No Please fill out this field.
- BRIDE'S Father's Name REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- Religion REQUIRED Please fill out this field.
- If Catholic, which Rite? REQUIRED Please fill out this field.
- BRIDE'S Mother's name (include Maiden) REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- Religion REQUIRED Please fill out this field.
- If Catholic, which Rite? REQUIRED Please fill out this field.
- BRIDE: Were you baptized? REQUIRED Yes: CATHOLIC (Baptismal Certificate within last 6 months required) Yes: PROTESTANT (Copy of Baptismal Certificate required) No (Two affidavits or freedom are required: Form A-1) Please fill out this field.
- BRIDE: Are you related to the groom by blood (kinship)? REQUIRED Yes No Please fill out this field.
- BRIDE: Are you related to the groom as an in-law to him? REQUIRED Yes No Please fill out this field.
- BRIDE: Did you make a profession in a religious order? REQUIRED Yes No Please fill out this field.
- BRIDE: Have your parents expressed opposition to this wedding? REQUIRED Yes No Please fill out this field.
- BRIDE: Do you want to enter a truly Christian Marriage: one that is permanent, exclusive and open to children? REQUIRED Yes No Please fill out this field.
- GROOM: Do you promise to answer truthfully? REQUIRED Yes No Please fill out this field.
- Did you complete FOCCUS, PREPARE, or a similar premarital inventory? REQUIRED Please fill out this field.
- Are you free to marry? REQUIRED Please fill out this field.
- Is there any person or circumstance forcing you to marry? REQUIRED Yes (If so, indicated to pastoral minister on a separate sheet) No Please fill out this field.
- Is any person or circumstance forcing the bride to marry? REQUIRED Yes (Indicate source of pressure) No Please fill out this field.
- How long have you been dating each other? REQUIRED Please fill out this field.
- When did you become formally engaged? REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter a date.
- Are you aware of any physical or psychological difficulty that might prevent the proper fulfillment of your marriage duties? REQUIRED No Yes (If so, explain) Please fill out this field.
- Do you understand that if you needed treatment for a drug, alcohol, mental, emotional or behavioral problem that such matters should be discussed by you with the bride? REQUIRED Yes No Please fill out this field.
- Are you concealing from the bride any important information abou yourself; either from the past or present, that might affect the bride's willingness to marry you if she knew it? REQUIRED No Yes (If so, explain) Please fill out this field.
- Do you understand the nature and obligations of marriage? REQUIRED Yes No Please fill out this field.
- Do you freely and without any pressure, direct or indirect, agree To enter this marriage for life, that is until natural death? To give the bride the right to have children if God grants such? To accept the obligations to be exclusively faithful to the bride? To consent to this marriage without conditions, restrictions or reservations of any kind? All of the above
- Do you judge yourself capable of fulfilling these commitments? REQUIRED Yes No Please fill out this field.
- Do you believe that the bride is making the same commitments? REQUIRED Yes No Please fill out this field.
- Would you accept chilren lovingly from God and raise them well? REQUIRED Yes No Please fill out this field.
- Would you raise them as practicing Catholics active in Church? REQUIRED Yes No Please fill out this field.
- If you havd a former marriage or relationship, have you properly fulfilled your obligations toward that woman? REQUIRED N/A Yes No Please fill out this field.
- If you have children from any previous relationship, have you properly fufilled your obligations toward those children? REQUIRED N/A Yes No Please fill out this field.
- BRIDE: Do you promise to answer truthfully? REQUIRED Yes No Please fill out this field.
- Did you complete FOCCUS, PREPARE, or a similar premarital inventory? REQUIRED Please fill out this field.
- Are you free to marry? REQUIRED Please fill out this field.
- Is there any person or circumstance forcing you to marry? REQUIRED Yes (If so, indicated to pastoral minister on a separate sheet) No Please fill out this field.
- Is any person or circumstance forcing the groom to marry? REQUIRED Yes (Indicate source of pressure) No Please fill out this field.
- How long have you been dating each other? REQUIRED Please fill out this field.
- When did you become formally engaged? REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter a date.
- Are you aware of any physical or psychological difficulty that might prevent the proper fulfillment of your marriage duties? REQUIRED No Yes (If so, explain) Please fill out this field.
- Do you understand that if you needed treatment for a drug, alcohol, mental, emotional or behavioral problem that such matters should be discussed by you with the groom? REQUIRED Yes No Please fill out this field.
- Are you concealing from the groom any important information abou yourself; either from the past or present, that might affect the groom's willingness to marry you if he knew it? REQUIRED No Yes (If so, explain) Please fill out this field.
- Do you understand the nature and obligations of marriage? REQUIRED Yes No Please fill out this field.
- Do you freely and without any pressure, direct or indirect, agree To enter this marriage for life, that is until natural death? To give the groom the right to have children if God grants such? To accept the obligations to be exclusively faithful to the groom? To consent to this marriage without conditions, restrictions or reservations of any kind? All of the above
- Do you judge yourself capable of fulfilling these commitments? REQUIRED Yes No Please fill out this field.
- Do you believe that the groom is making the same commitments? REQUIRED Yes No Please fill out this field.
- Would you accept chilren lovingly from God and raise them well? REQUIRED Yes No Please fill out this field.
- Would you raise them as practicing Catholics active in Church? REQUIRED Yes No Please fill out this field.
- If you havd a former marriage or relationship, have you properly fulfilled your obligations toward that man? REQUIRED N/A Yes No Please fill out this field.
- If you have children from any previous relationship, have you properly fufilled your obligations toward those children? REQUIRED N/A Yes No Please fill out this field.
- GROOM: Place of Birth REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- Date of birth REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter a date.
- Church of Baptism REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- City REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
  
  State REQUIRED Please fill out this field.
  
  Zip REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter a zip code.
- Date of Baptism REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter a date.
- Baptism Not Baptized
- Church of Confirmation REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- Place of Confirmation REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- Confirmation Not Confirmed
- Freedom to Married verified by: REQUIRED Please fill out this field.
- BRIDE: Place of Birth REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- Date of birth REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter a date.
- Church of Baptism REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- City REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
  
  State REQUIRED Please fill out this field.
  
  Zip REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter a zip code.
- Date of Baptism REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter a date.
- Baptism Not Baptized
- Church of Confirmation REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- Place of Confirmation REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- Confirmation Not Confirmed
- Freedom to Married verified by: REQUIRED Please fill out this field.
- Ecclesiastical Dispensations and/or Permissions Required REQUIRED Please fill out this field.
- The source of Church Delegation to Officiate at this Marriage REQUIRED Please fill out this field.
- N.B. Deacons must not witness a marriage involving a member of the Eastern Churches.
- I am morally certain of their freedom to marry. I am convinced that they are sincere in their stated intentions for marriage (personal preparation and observations of the pastoral minister should be noted in the file and on a separate paper). Acknowledged by the Pastoral Minister
- Date REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter a date.
- Ecclesiastical Position REQUIRED Please fill out this field.
- Name of Officiant REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- Best Man REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- Address REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- City REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
  
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- Maid/Matron of Honor REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
- Address REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter valid data.
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  Zip REQUIRED Please fill out this field. Please enter a zip code.
- The following forms, license, notifications have been made to: Civil Marriage License presented to the couple The Civil Marriage was completed, signed by the officiant and two witnesses The Civil Marriage License was returned to the municipality where the marriage was celebrated The Parishes of Baptism of both the bride AND the groom were notified The Parish where the marriage was celebrated was recorded in the Official Marriage Register All of the above were completed
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