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Ark. Code Ann. § 5-26-201

Bigamy

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Estes v. State (2018)

Most recently applied in Estes v. State (May 2018)

Acts 1975, No. 280, § 2402; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-2402.

(1) A person commits bigamy if, being married, he or she purports to marry another person.

(2) It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution under this section that at the time of the alleged offense the actor: Reasonably believed that the prior spouse was dead;

(3) Had lived apart from the prior spouse for five (5) consecutive years throughout which time the prior spouse was not known to the actor to be alive;

(4) Reasonably believed that a court had ordered a valid termination or annulment of the prior marriage; or

(5) Otherwise reasonably believed that the actor was legally eligible to marry.

(6) Bigamy is a Class A misdemeanor.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.