Religious Polygamy

[ArtSpitzer at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/21/05 2:17:37 AM, RLCyr at aol.com writes:

> The only way I can think of in which these unions could violate criminal 
> bigamy laws is if the non-legally married parties (at least one of whom was 
> legally married to a third person) were to live in, or go to, a common law 
> marriage state and present themselves as married (assuming that there still are 
> common law marriage states -- that's not something I've thought much about 
> since law school), becoming married under common law.
> 

The District of Columbia, for one, still recognizes common law marriages.
Art Spitzer
ACLU
Washington DC
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