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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>85324</law_id><section_number>18.2-363</section_number><catch_line>Leaving Commonwealth to evade law against bigamy</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>18.2-364</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 persons, resident in the Commonwealth, one of whom has a living spouse, shall, with the intention of returning to reside in the Commonwealth, go into another state or country and there intermarry and return to and reside in the Commonwealth cohabiting as a married couple, such marriage shall be governed by the same <span class="dictionary">law</span>, in all respects, as if it had been solemnized in the Commonwealth.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 20-44; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 2020, c. 900.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
