Virginia § 18.2-364 - Exceptions to §§ 18.2-362 and 18.2-363
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§ 18.2-364. Exceptions to §§ 18.2-362 and 18.2-363
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.
Code 1950, § 20-42; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 2020, c. 900.
Source: official Virginia text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 18.2-364 ("Exceptions to §§ 18.2-362 and 18.2-363") is part of the Code of Virginia, the codified statutory law of Virginia. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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