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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>86356</law_id><section_number>18.2-362</section_number><catch_line>Person marrying when spouse is living; penalty; venue</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>18.2-364</reference><reference>18.2-374.1</reference><reference>18.2-67.9</reference><reference>19.2-299</reference><reference>19.2-392.12</reference><reference>53.1-202.3</reference><reference>53.1-40.02</reference><reference>8.01-396.2</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="18.2">Crimes and Offenses Generally</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="8">Crimes Involving Morals and Decency</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="4">Family Offenses; Crimes Against Children, etc</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If any married person, during the life of such person&#x2019;s spouse, marries another person in the Commonwealth, or, if the marriage with such other person takes place outside of the Commonwealth and the persons cohabitate in the Commonwealth, he is guilty of a Class 4 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>. <span class="dictionary">Venue</span> for a violation of this section may be in the county or city where the subsequent marriage occurred or where the parties to the subsequent marriage cohabited.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 20-41; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 2003, c. 99; 2020, c. 900.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
