2006-10-18 11:59:38 · 17 answers · asked by phonty1657 1 in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
Yes, but why would you? He is obviously not an honorable man if he is asking you to marry him while he is still married to someone else. Think about it...
2006-10-18 12:24:30 · answer #1 · answered by Bookworm4124 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, he sure can. My fiance is still married. He's been separated four years now because his wife was committed to a state mental hospital for paranoid schizophrenia by her parents. We're still waiting to find out how he's going to get his divorce from her but yes a man can be engaged to you just can't marry until he has a divorce from his wife.
2006-10-18 12:06:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
An engagement is an agreement or promise to marry, and also refers to the time between proposal and marriage. Realistically it is hard to promis to marry when one is legally prohibited to marry, But promises are promises i consider such promise in circumstances worthless.
The concept of an engagement period may have begun in 1215 at the Fourth Lateran Council, headed by Pope Innocent III, which decreed that "marriages are to be . . . announced publicly in the churches by the priests during a suitable and fixed time, so that if legitimate impediments exist, they may be made known." imagine married man announcing in the church that he will marry another woman after he get divorce sound pathetic.
2006-10-18 12:25:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure. He can be engaged without being separated. An engagement is just a promise to marry. He just can't fulfill that promise until after the divorce.
2006-10-18 12:33:49 · answer #4 · answered by C. V. C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. But he can't marry until he is legally divorced. My question to you is why would you (or any woman) want to be engaged to a fantasy that might not come true? This man is not available. Emotionally, or legally.
2006-10-18 12:04:31 · answer #5 · answered by littleflower_57 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
getting engaged is only saying that you are promising to marry someone, but marriage cannot happen until previous marriage is legally ended.
2006-10-19 04:40:32 · answer #6 · answered by Iluvtedebears 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
engagement is not a legal thing, it's a question, and an answer...no divorce is needed. However, marriage is a legal thing, and that has to be completed prior to remarriage.
2006-10-18 12:07:23 · answer #7 · answered by Joe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, he can. Engagement is not a legal arrangement, but a "sentimental" one. It is not illegal to get engaged while separated.
2006-10-18 12:05:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. But, he has to get a divorce to marry again
2006-10-18 12:06:59 · answer #9 · answered by BB 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
But why would a woman agree to be engaged to him before he's divorced???
2006-10-18 12:33:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋