[CedarDave]

Too complicated for me to follow. Get the rest of the story from the Journal which is free again, but you have to view an advertisement for about 30 seconds before the link comes up.

[Tijeras_Slim]

How about a stupid NM two-fer?

Here's a guy in Tijeras who's breeding Vampire Bats

[martin_fierro]

WTFIIWNM?

[Turbopilot]

I can't read the rest of the article (the "free link" appears to require you to accept a cookie from an advertising web site, which they don't explicitly identify), but from what's posted it seems to make sense. Legally, the second marriage never existed, so as a nonexistent marriage it wouldn't have any effect on the divorce proceedings of the "real" first marriage.

Having said that, it's certainly prima facie evidence of spousal infidelity, which if it were up to me would significantly reduce the amount of marital possessions to which the cheater would be entitled. It sounds like the appellate judge in this case recognized the infidelity as a factor that could be considered, just not in the context of a legally nonexistent second marriage. But I don't know what the laws in NM have to say about infidelity in divorce proceedings.

[Gay State Conservative]

Knowing "progressive" states as well as I do,watch for New Mexican courts to rule that bigamist wives should suffer no sanctions but bigamist husbands should.

Remember,boys and girls,you heard it here first.