Why do Filipino Catholics have a harder time to get a church annulment?

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From K-HB's answer here:

It seems possible to get a church annulment without getting a state annulment before. You can recognize this by a new proposed bill in the Philippine parliament: In future a church annulment shall be recognised as a state annulment. This only makes sense, if a church annulment can be decreed without a previous state annulment.

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You are reasoning incorrectly. The error begins in your statement 4, which is only true in states which admit both civil divorce and civil annulment. Nor need it be true that civil annulment in any given country is always more expensive than every civil divorce in every country.

There is, as you state, incentive to have a civil divorce rather than civil annulment in countries in which both exist and annulment is more expensive. But it needn't be true that in a country without civil divorce, there is therefore pressure to create civil divorce. The pressure, if there is any, is simply to create a less expensive substitute for the annulment at its current cost - reducing the current cost of an annulment would do the trick.

It would be more (financially at least) beneficial for the Philippines to have civil divorce, if that were to be less expensive than civil annulment. But it would be equally beneficial if the cost of an annulment were lowered. Thus your statement (7), and part 2 of your conclusion, are incorrect.

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