text: We don't know whether there is any evidence that Eastern Catholic Rites ever allowed remarriage after divorce. If it continued after these Churches reunited with Rome then it would have been an abuse which has now been corrected.
  A lot of Eastern Rite Catholics live in the USA and if such an abuse existed there then it would have come to the attention of Latin bishops. Also, the Vatican was quite strict with US Eastern Rite Churches, it is only recently that married men have been allowed to be ordained.
  Another thing to remember is that years ago annulment and divorce meat the same thing as in the cases of Henry VIII and Napoleon.