Originally Posted By: olivant
But Lilo, you've got to account for common-law marriage which in most states is the result of twopeople representing themselves as married.


Yup. But in this case could the state argue that the man was trying to deceive anyone when he's living with all of the women to whom he says he's "married"??

It just seems like it would be a big mess of circular logic. The state could say "You are representing yourself as being married to woman B when in fact our records show you are legally married to woman A".

Then presumably the man would say "But woman A and woman B both live with me and and I never tried to legally marry woman B or list her as common law wife in any legal proceedings/documents so no laws were broken".

What would the prosecutor say in that instance, do you think? I would like to see the case arguments because I think they'd be fun.

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