{"data":{"id":"us-gu/9-gca-31.10","jurisdiction":"us-gu","citation":"9 GCA § 31.10","heading":"Bigamy; Defined \u0026 Punished.","body":"(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:\n(1) the defendant believes that the prior spouse is dead;\n(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;\n(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\n(4) the defendant reasonably believes that he is legally eligible to remarry.\n(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.","path":["Title 9: Crimes and Corrections","Chapter 31: Offenses Against the Family"],"source_url":"https://col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/9gc031.pdf","current_through":"P.L. 38-133 (June 4, 2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-27T02:46:58Z","sha256":"09a9b10071030a7b4211bee1c6a9f87083e54a917e5d3adeff23bdc8cc48c616","source_id":"us-gu","stale":false,"prev":"us-gu/9-gca-30.400","next":"us-gu/9-gca-31.15"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}