Va. Code § 18.2-364

Current with changes from the 2024 legislative session through ch. 845

Section 18.2-364 - Exceptions to sections 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.

Va. Code § 18.2-364

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

Amended by Acts 2020 c. 900, § 1, eff. 7/1/2020.