Convalidation Formal Case Party

Section Six: Alcohol

F1a. Prior to the church wedding, how many times a week would your former spouse typically drink alcohol?*

F1b. Prior to the church wedding, how many alcoholic drinks would your former spouse typically have on the days he/she drank?*

F1c. Prior to the church wedding, what kind of alcohol did your former spouse typically drink at that time (e.g. hard liquor or beer)?*

F1d. Prior to the church wedding, would your former spouse usually be intoxicated on the days he/she drank? If so, please explain the drunken behavior exhibited*

F2. Please describe in detail any negative consequences that your former spouse’s drinking caused prior to the church wedding. *

F3. What was the use of alcohol like in your former spouse’s childhood home?*

F4a. Prior to the church wedding, how many times a week would you typically drink alcohol?*

F4b. Prior to the church wedding, how many alcoholic drinks would you typically have on the days you drank?*

F4c. Prior to the church wedding, what kind of alcohol did you typically drink at that time (e.g. hard liquor or beer)?*

F4d. Prior to the church wedding, would you usually be intoxicated on the days you drank? If so, please explain the drunken behavior exhibited.*

F5. Please describe in detail any negative consequences that your drinking caused prior to the church wedding. *

F6. What was the use of alcohol like in your childhood home? *

F7a. During the first year after the church wedding, how many times a week would your former spouse typically drink alcohol?*

F7b. During the first year of the churc marriage, how many alcoholic drinks would your former spouse typically have on the days he/she drank?*

F7c. During the first year of the church marriage, what kind of alcohol did your former spouse typically drink at that time (e.g. hard liquor or beer)? *

F7d. During the first year of the church marriage, would your former spouse usually be intoxicated on the days he/she drank? If so, please explain the drunken behavior exhibited.*

F8. Please describe in detail any negative consequences that your former spouse’s drinking caused during the first year of the church marriage, in detail.*

F9a. During the first year of the church marriage, how many times a week would you typically drink alcohol?*

F9b. During the first year of the church marriage how many alcoholic drinks would you typically have on the days you drank?*

F9c. During the first year of the church marriage, what kind of alcohol did you typically drink at that time (e.g. hard liquor or beer)?*

F9d. During the first year of the church marriage, would you usually be intoxicated on the days you drank? If so, please explain the drunken behavior exhibited.*

F10. Please describe in detail any negative consequences that your drinking caused during the first year of the church marriage.*

F11a. After the first year of the church marriage, how many times a week would your former spouse typically drink alcohol?*

F11b. After the first year of the church marriage, how many alcoholic drinks would your former spouse typically have on the days he/she drank?*

F11c. After the first year of the church marriage, what kind of alcohol did your former spouse typically drink at that time (e.g. hard liquor or beer)? *

F11d. After the first year of the church marriage, would your former spouse usually be intoxicated on the days he/she drank? If so, please explain the drunken behavior exhibited.*

F12. Please describe in detail any negative consequences that your former spouse’s drinking caused after the first year of the church marriage *

F13. What efforts were made by your former spouse to get outside help with alcohol use? (Please describe this in detail, including a timeline.)*

F14a. After the first year of the church marriage, how many times a week would you typically drink alcohol? *

F14b. After the first year of the church marriage how many alcoholic drinks would you typically have on the days you drank? *

F14c. After the first year of the church marriage, what kind of alcohol did you typically drink at that time (e.g. hard liquor or beer)?*

F14d. After the first year of the church marriage, would you usually be intoxicated on the days you drank? If so, please explain the drunken behavior exhibited. *

F15. Please describe in detail any negative consequences that your drinking caused after the first year of the church marriage. *

F16. What efforts were made by you to get outside help with alcohol use? (Please describe this in detail, including a timeline.)*

Section Seven: Drugs and Chemical Dependence

G1a. What were the drug/narcotic/chemical use habits of your former spouse prior to the church wedding? (Please describe the frequency and quantity of drug/narcotic/chemical use in detail.)*

G1b. Please describe in detail any negative consequences that your former spouse’s drug/narcotic/chemical use caused prior to the church wedding. *

G2. What was drug/narcotic/chemical use like in your former spouse’s childhood home?*

G3a. What were your drug/narcotic/chemical use habits prior to the church wedding? (Please describe the frequency and quantity of drug/narcotic/chemical use in detail.)*

G3b. Please describe any negative consequences that your drug/narcotic/chemical use caused prior to the church wedding, in detail. *

G4. What was drug/narcotic/chemical use like in your childhood home? *

G5a. What were the drug/narcotic/chemical use habits of your former spouse during the first year of the church marriage? (Please describe the frequency and quantity of drug/narcotic/chemical use in detail, as well as a timeline of use.)*

G5b. Please describe any negative consequences that your former spouse’s drug/narcotic/chemical use caused during the first year of the church marriage, in detail. *

G6a. What was your drug/narcotic/chemical use habits during the first year of the church marriage? (Please describe the frequency and quantity of drug/narcotic/chemical use in detail, as well as a timeline of use.)*

G6b. Please describe any negative consequences that your drug/narcotic/chemical use caused during the first year of the church marriage, in detail. *

G7a. What were the drug/narcotic/chemical use habits of your former spouse after the first year of the church marriage? (Please describe the frequency and quantity of drug/narcotic/chemical use in detail, as well as a timeline of use.)*

G7b. Please describe any negative consequences that your former spouse’s drug/narcotic/chemical use caused after the church wedding, in detail. *

G8. What efforts were ever made by your former spouse to get outside help with drug/narcotic/chemical use and when? (Please describe this in detail.)*

G9a. What were your drug/narcotic/chemical use habits after the church wedding? (Please describe the frequency and quantity of drug/narcotic/chemical use in detail.)*

G9b. Please describe any negative consequences that your drug/narcotic/chemical use caused after the church wedding, in detail. *

G10. What efforts were made by you to get outside help with drug/narcotic/chemical use? (Please describe this in detail.)*

Section Eight: Violence

H1. Did your former spouse come from a home where domestic violence occurred? *

Yes No Unknown

H1b. Please explain in detail.*

H2. Did your former spouse ever threaten or inflict bodily harm on you, him/herself, or the children prior to your church wedding? (Please explain this in detail, including a timeline.) *

H3. Did your former spouse ever threaten or inflict bodily harm on you, him/herself, or the children during the first year of the church marriage? (Please explain this in detail, including a timeline.)*

H4. Did your former spouse ever threaten or inflict bodily harm on you, him/herself, or the children after the first year of the church marriage? (Please explain this in detail, including a timeline.)*

H5. Did you come from a home where domestic violence occurred? *

Yes No

H5b. Please explain in detail. *

H6. Did you ever threaten or inflict bodily harm on yourself, your former spouse, or the children prior to your church wedding? (Please explain this in detail, including a timeline.)*

H7. Did you ever threaten or inflict bodily harm on yourself, your former spouse, or the children during the first year of the church marriage? (Please explain this in detail, including a timeline.)*

H8. Did you ever threaten or inflict bodily harm on yourself, your former spouse, or the children after the first year of the church marriage? (Please explain this in detail, including a timeline.)*

H9. What legal consequences, if any, resulted from any violence or threats of violence in your dating or married life? (Please explain this in detail.)*

Section Eleven: Force and Grave Fear

K1. Did your former spouse choose to church marry you because of grave fear?*

Yes No Unsure

K1b. What was the origin of this fear?*

K1c. How do you know this information?*

K2. Was your former spouse’s decision to church marry motivated by any desires other than escaping fear?*

K3. At the time of the church wedding, did your former spouse freely accept church marriage?*

K4. Immediately following the church wedding, was your former spouse pleased with his/her decision?*

K5. Immediately following the church wedding, was your former spouse committed to carry out the vows he/she had taken?*

K6. Is your former spouse easily intimidated or persuaded by others?*

K7. Did you choose to church marry because of grave fear?*

Yes No

K7b. What was the origin of this fear? *

K8. Was your decision to church marry motivated by any desires other than escaping fear?*

K9. At the time of the church wedding, did you freely accept church marriage?*

K10. Immediately following the church wedding, were you pleased with your decision?*

K11. Immediately following the church wedding, were you committed to carry out the vows you had taken?*

K12. Are you easily intimidated or persuaded by others?*

K13. What would have happened if you and your former spouse had not married?*

Section Twelve: Separation and Divorce

L1. When did serious difficulties in the church marriage begin? *

L2. What efforts were made to respond to and/or resolve those differences? *

L3. How did each of you participate in those efforts? *

L4a. Were there any separations prior to the final separation? *

Yes No

L4b. If so, please explain in detail including when the separation(s) occurred.*

L5. On or about what date did the final separation occur? *

L6. Where did each of you live after the final separation? *

L7. If you had children, with whom did they live after the final separation?*

L8. What circumstances immediately led up to the final separation? *

L9. Who petitioned for divorce? *

L10. What were the reasons given to the court for divorce? *

Section Thirteen: Final Addendum

M1. Is there anything further—both pertinent and factual—that you would like to add to your testimony? If so, please do so here.

Final Note: Any supporting documentation—legal records, police reports, emails, texts, released medical records, etc. —should be mailed to the Tribunal as corroborating evidence right away.

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Progress

Section One: Introductory Questions

Section Two: Intentions about Marriage - Permanence and Indissolubility

Section Three: Intentions about Marriage - Fidelity and Exclusivity

Section Four: Intentions about Marriage - Procreation

Section Five: Psychological - Emotional

Section Six: Alcohol

Section Seven: Drugs and Chemical Dependence

Section Eight: Violence

Section Nine: Maturity

Section Ten: Deceit

Section Eleven: Force and Grave Fear

Section Twelve: Separation and Divorce

Section Thirteen: Final Addendum