Procedura rozstrzygania spraw wpadkowych w kanonicznym procesie małżeńskim

In the will of Christ a marriage of baptized is a sacrament. It is therefore subject to special protection of canon law. The Church is guarding the institution of marriage which is inseparable from the will of God. One of the way of this protection are the norms for the conduct the cases of nullity of marriage. This process does not exist to declare nullity of marriage but to reach the objective truth about a particular marriage, and therefore to declare whether the marriage was ever concluded in a valid way. The subject of the article is about the incidental cases that may occur in the process of nullity of marriage. Incidental cases are some of the issues that are not considered as the main issue but they appear during the process and require clarification so that the main issue can continue. Incidental cases are not one of the most important elements of the marriage nullity process. However, they are helpful for the ultimate clarification of the truth about a given marriage. The lawmaker presents two situations that can be resolved in canonical processes as in-cidental cases. Namely, the absence of the litigant and the intervention of a third person in case. There may also be other incidental cases in the process of nullity of marriage. These are, among others, the following situations: the exclusion of a judge or other church officials from the case, a finding of a judge's inability to settle a case, the determination of the party's ability to appear in court and the appointment of a curator, acceptance or exclusion the evidence, correcting the error in the judgment, the death declaration of one of the parties, and the question of existence of the bond of marriage. These are not the only things that can be resolved by the mode of incidental cases but only the most possible to occur and indicated by the canonists.