Ley sobre Bigamia en California

Explicación Simple

La bigamia es cuando una persona se casa con alguien más mientras todavía está casada. En California, esto es ilegal, y si alguien lo hace, puede enfrentarse a problemas legales.

Es como si tuvieras dos suscripciones a una misma revista, pero solo deberías tener una. Si decides suscribirte a otra sin cancelar la primera, eso no está permitido.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que Juan está casado con Ana. Sin embargo, Juan decide casarse con María sin divorciarse de Ana. En este caso, Juan podría ser acusado de bigamia porque tiene dos esposas al mismo tiempo.

Penalidades

La bigamia es un delito en California, y las penas pueden incluir multas o cárcel, dependiendo del caso.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

Penal Code - PEN PART 1. OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS [25 - 680.4] ( Part 1 enacted 1872. ) TITLE 9. OF CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON INVOLVING SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC DECENCY AND GOOD MORALS [261 - 368.7] ( Heading of Title 9 amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1111, Sec. 2. ) CHAPTER 5. Bigamy, Incest, and the Crime Against Nature [281 - 289.6] ( Chapter 5 enacted 1872. ) 281. (a) Every person having a spouse living, who marries or enters into a registered domestic partnership with any other person, except in the cases specified in Section 282, is guilty of bigamy. (b) Upon a trial for bigamy, it is not necessary to prove either of the marriages or registered domestic partnerships by the register, certificate, or other record evidence thereof, but the marriages or registered domestic partnerships may be proved by evidence which is admissible to prove a marriage or registered domestic partnership in other cases; and when the second marriage or registered domestic partnership took place out of this state, proof of that fact, accompanied with proof of cohabitation thereafter in this state, is sufficient to sustain the charge. (Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 50, Sec. 70. (SB 1005) Effective January 1, 2017.)