2006-07-23 04:53:28 · 7 answers · asked by ftisinc 1 in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
Nope. If you are married to two people at the same time, well, enjoy prison.
2006-07-23 04:57:31 · answer #1 · answered by barelyliterate 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, it reall depends on the country. In the states, it is as follows...
An unmarried person who marries a married person is bigamous, if that person knew of the other existing marriage. The crime of bigamy is based on the assumption that the first marriage is valid at the time of the second. Determination of the validity of the first marriage must be made under the laws of the place where the initial marriage occurred.
If the first marriage is valid, the second is bigamous even though the defendant believed that the first marriage was invalid, absent a statute providing otherwise. In recent years, a blanket provision has been adopted in a number of jurisdictions that allows a defense for bigamy if the accused believed in good faith that the first marriage was void.
Bigamous marriages are by definition void: a man marries a second wife during the course of a first marriage, and the first marriage is dissolved by death or divorce. He then marries a third wife. He can be convicted of bigamy for the second marriage but not the third. Because the second marriage is bigamous it is void, and because the third marriage occurred after the dissolution of the first it is valid.
The statute of limitations begins to run from the date of the second marriage. Where the statutory violation is cohabitation after a bigamous marriage, the statute of limitations does not begin to run until the cohabitation ceases.
2006-07-23 11:59:27 · answer #2 · answered by jimmy h 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if the first marriage isn't legal divorced yet in a court of law then the second marriage is not legal and that person can be arrested for poligamy because it's illegal to be married to more than one person at a time
2006-07-23 11:56:25 · answer #3 · answered by jen7522 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No,you just commited bigamy, because they are still married until that judge says so in a divorce degree. And now that other person now has the right to sue you for breaking up their home and marriage. Believe me for I'm doing this to the ho who broke up mine and married my husband before we were divorced, now there butts are mine. thank you hony for the fuel for my fire that you both will soon feel.love you baby.
2006-07-23 12:04:27 · answer #4 · answered by patricia h 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If he isn't divorced then a marriage has no standing and may put you in legal jeopardy.
I would also call into question his dedication if he wants to start a new marriage before he finishes his old business.
2006-07-23 11:59:47 · answer #5 · answered by opie with an attitude 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If they were not divorced when they remarried, then the second marriage is not valid.
2006-07-23 11:56:09 · answer #6 · answered by sahel578 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes it is
2006-07-23 11:59:32 · answer #7 · answered by zariah1977 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋