9 GCA § 31.10: Bigamy; Defined & Punished.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 9: Crimes and Corrections
- Chapter 31: Offenses Against the Family
(a) A married person is guilty of bigamy, a misdemeanor, if he contracts or purports to contract another marriage, unless at the time of the subsequent marriage:
(1) the defendant believes that the prior spouse is dead;
(2) the defendant and the prior spouse have been living apart for five (5) consecutive years throughout which the prior spouse was not known by the defendant to be alive;
(3) a court has entered a judgment purporting to terminate or annul any prior disqualifying marriage, and the defendant does not know that judgment to be invalid; or
(4) the defendant reasonably believes that he is legally eligible to remarry.
(b) A person is guilty of bigamy if he contracts or purports to contract marriage with another knowing that the other is thereby committing bigamy.
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