Nullification of Marriage: Wyllinds vs. Stromheart

The nullification of the marriage between Kateryn Wyllinds and Tenevus Stromheart was an action of the Dicastery of Law. The nullification requires that the marriage was invalid from the onset for cause that at least one party of the agreement was unable to execute the basic requirements of marriage for cause of a "psychic nature," e.g., that the marriage never happened.

Significance
The document announcing the annulment is mundane in every sense, with language common to all such documents. The significance of this case comes from the station and standing of both the respondent and the petitioner, a excommunicated paladin and a priestess of the church. The fact that it passed over both the court of first instance and the appellate court directly to the Dicastery of Law reflects that the case was very controversial - so controversial and dangerous that it was not in the consideration of anyone by the Lord Chancellor of the Church.

The document is also significant in that it provides a directive for the well-being of the children, who were evidently in some serious danger by the judgment of the court. Though the document, as an annulment, does not cast any blame on either party for the invalidity of their marriage, the document established custody over all children of the union to be rightly with Kateryn Wyllinds, the party that requested the investigation. Failing that, the document establishes that the children would become wards of the church.

The document was signed by all parties in the chain of custody, including officials from the Diocese of Stromgarde, Diocese of Stormwind, the Congregation of the Inquisition, the Congregation of the Chancery, and, finally, the Lord Chancellor of the Church, Allrick Antonius. It was proclaimed both by the Dicastery of Law in the Cathedral of Light and the Diocese of Stromgarde in the Stromgarde Sanctum, unusual but not unheard of for a nullification of marriage, especially one of such controversy.