{"data":{"id":"us-ks/k.s.a.-21-5609","jurisdiction":"us-ks","citation":"K.S.A. 21-5609","heading":"Bigamy.","body":"(a) Bigamy is any of the following:\n(1) Marriage within this state by any person who has another spouse living at the time of such marriage;\n(2) marriage within this state by an unmarried person to a person known to such unmarried person to be the spouse of some other person; or\n(3) cohabitation within this state after marriage in another state or country under circumstances described in subsection (a)(1) or (a)(2).\n(b) Bigamy is a severity level 10, nonperson felony.\n(c) It shall be a defense to a charge of bigamy that the accused reasonably believed the prior marriage had been dissolved by death, divorce or annulment.","path":["Chapter 21.—CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS","Article 56.—CRIMES AFFECTING FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS AND CHILDREN"],"source_url":"https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch21/021_056_0009.html","current_through":"2025 legislative session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:11:10Z","sha256":"6f4665f8be62c8f2f3fb81ae8d718bbdd2b52f2d0dd888ba8babc497d2e16b8b","source_id":"us-ks","stale":false,"prev":"us-ks/k.s.a.-21-5608","next":"us-ks/k.s.a.-21-5610"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}