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us-gu · Through P.L. 38-133 (June 4, 2026)

9 GCA § 31.10: Bigamy; Defined & Punished.

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  1. Title 9: Crimes and Corrections
  2. 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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