{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-16-6-20","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 16-6-20","heading":"Bigamy.","body":"(a) A person commits the offense of bigamy when he, being married and knowing that his lawful spouse is living, marries another person or carries on a bigamous cohabitation with another person.\n(b) It shall be an affirmative defense that the prior spouse has been continually absent for a period of seven years, during which time the accused did not know the prior spouse to be alive, or that the accused reasonably believed he was eligible to remarry.\n(c) A person convicted of the offense of bigamy shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than ten years.","path":["TITLE 16 Crimes and Offenses","CHAPTER 6 Sexual Offenses"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.16.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"723ddac9502bf38542b11858529502256213538df7a2b94a35021c1f5fd7224c","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-16-6-19","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-16-6-21"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}