Virginia § 18.2-364 Exceptions to §§ 18.2-362 and 18.2-363

Virginia Statutes

§ 18.2-364 — Exceptions to §§ 18.2-362 and 18.2-363

Virginia § 18.2-364

Title 18.2Crimes and Offenses Generally

Ch. 8Crimes Involving Morals and Decency

Art. 4Family Offenses; Crimes Against Children, etc

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Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-364 (2026).

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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.

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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.