[Ansteorra] Ansteorra Digest, Vol 86, Issue 26

[Lee King]

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Subject: Ansteorra Digest, Vol 86, Issue 26
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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:00:21 -0700

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From: txldyjuliana at yahoo.com
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:13:52 -0700
Subject: [Ansteorra] OT question

>My question is what
>could the consequences of these actions be, both locally and federally?


Short answer is none, if the parties to the second marriage lived together as man and wife until after the 31 day waiting period ended. 
While this might technically constitute bigamy, I cannot see an prosecutor taking the case under these circumstances. And, there is a defense to bigamy if a party reasonably believed they wee divorced from the former spouse at the time of the marriage.
I searched Lexis and the only bigamy cases reported in the last 10 years were related to the Warren Jeffs's compound in West Texas, and one case where a Mexican immigrant married a woman in Texas without divorcing his Mexican wife because he believed the Mexican marriage not valid in Texas.
Nothing to see folks; move along. 
LeeOld Tired Attorney