What can I do about finding out that my ex husband committed bigotry while we were still legally married?

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What can I do about finding out that my ex husband committed bigotry while we were still legally married?

I just found out that my ex husband got remarried in 2013. We didn’t get a divorce until 2014. What can I do about that?

Asked on November 9, 2018 under Family Law, Louisiana

Answers:

SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney

Answered 5 years ago | Contributor

You can't do anything about it: it did not affect you in a legal sense (other than providing grounds for divorce, but if you are already divorced, that is irrelevant)--the first marriage to be entered into remains valid when someone commits bigamy, but the second "marriage" is not  a marriage, since in the U.S., you cannot marry person B while still married to person A. This second "wife" could annul their marriage as having not been valid from the beginning or on the basis he committed "fraud" in the marriage, but this is her issue, not yours. 


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