                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

EXCEPTIONS TO §§ 18.2-362 AND 18.2-363 (§ 18.2-364)

Sections 18.2-362 and 18.2-363 shall not extend to a person whose spouse shall
have been continuously absent from such person for seven years next before
marriage of such person to another, and shall not have been known by such person
to be living within that time; nor to a person who can show that the second
marriage was contracted in good faith under a reasonable belief that the former
consort was dead; nor to a person who shall, at the time of the subsequent
marriage, have been divorced from the bond of the former marriage; nor to a
person whose former marriage was void.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 20-42; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 2020, c. 900.