TITLE 18

CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

CHAPTER 11

BIGAMY AND POLYGAMY

18-1102.  Exceptions to preceding section. The last section does not extend:

1.  To any person by reason of any former marriage, whose husband or wife by such marriage has been absent for five (5) successive years without being known to such person within that time to be living; nor,

2.  To any person by reason of any former marriage which has been pronounced void, annulled, or dissolved by the judgment of a competent court.

History:

[18-1102, added 1972, ch. 336, sec. 1, p. 868.]