Legal Question in Family Law in Florida
Bigamy
How would one go about getting a divorce in the result of a bigamist. I recently was put under the belief that I was divorced from my ex-wife, she called and notified me about the recent divorce and she told me I should be receiving paper work in the mail. Well, after about 6 motnhs after this I hadn't received any divorce paperwork. So I did a staterwide search with Florida vital stastics for the divorce record and it came back to me that there was no record of divorce between me and her. I did a background check on her and it came up that she was married to some other person. I was wanting know what could I do in order to be legally divorced from her without going through all the motions of filing for a divorce and not breaking up her happy home. I just don't want to be married to her while she is married to someone else.
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Re: Bigamy
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There is no way to avoid the filing of a divorce action if your wife did not file and receive a final judgment previously. What you described is a serious criminal offense. You need to talk to her and give her the opportunity to prove that she obtained the divorce previously. Computerized searches are not infallible.
Scott R. Jay, Esq.
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