foreverknight
New Member
This took me by surprise.
I am about to marry a woman whom I thought was divorced. Lately she discovered that she is still married even though she divorced properly.
Confused? So am I!
My fiancee married a man who turned out to be abusive and she left him. No divorce, she just left. He got counseling and begged her to return, using a lot of blackmail to get her to say yes.
When she did, he insisted on another wedding as a sign of their new commitment to each other and there's the problem.
Years later she divorced him and thought that was it.
Now she says she's discovered that divorce refers only to ONE of those marriage ceremonies not both.
She consulted a local lawyer in New Jersey, where she now lives, who says that she is still married in law.
Is this true?
I've never heard of this and I'm wondering how many other people might be living bigamously due to this confusion.
Both marriages were in NYC as was the one divorce.
John
I am about to marry a woman whom I thought was divorced. Lately she discovered that she is still married even though she divorced properly.
Confused? So am I!
My fiancee married a man who turned out to be abusive and she left him. No divorce, she just left. He got counseling and begged her to return, using a lot of blackmail to get her to say yes.
When she did, he insisted on another wedding as a sign of their new commitment to each other and there's the problem.
Years later she divorced him and thought that was it.
Now she says she's discovered that divorce refers only to ONE of those marriage ceremonies not both.
She consulted a local lawyer in New Jersey, where she now lives, who says that she is still married in law.
Is this true?
I've never heard of this and I'm wondering how many other people might be living bigamously due to this confusion.
Both marriages were in NYC as was the one divorce.
John