The Ghost Wedding of Messina: the Parish Priest Forgets the Transcription, the Husband Takes Off and the Bride Sues for 15 Years

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The woman had signed two loans for over 66,000 euros, to cover the expenses of the ceremony and the house. About a year later, the relationship enters into crisis and opts for separation. At that point it turns out that the marriage act has never been recorded in the civil registers

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The decision of the Supreme Court of September 2025. The marriage in church, the separation and the resounding discovery: for the Italian State they were not married.

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Two Italians married in 2009 in Messina, Sicily, Italy, but the priest forgot to register the marriage, and after one year when the two wanted to divorce, they discovered that the state...

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An Italian woman from Messina, in Sicily, has experienced a real legal and emotional ordeal after discovering, fifteen years after her bond, that her marriage was never valid. The unusual case, known as the “phantom weddings”, has shaken the country and reopened the debate on administrative errors in civil registers. According to Corriere della Sera newspaper, the woman contracted religious marriage in 2008 with her then partner in a local paris…