                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

LEAVING COMMONWEALTH TO EVADE LAW AGAINST BIGAMY (§ 18.2-363)

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 law, in all respects, as if it had been solemnized in the Commonwealth.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 20-44; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 2020, c. 900.