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Indiana Code › Title 35 › Article 46 › Chapter 1 › Section 35-46-1-2

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Sec. 2. (a) A person who, being married and knowing that the person's spouse is alive, marries again commits bigamy, a Level 6 felony.

(b) It is a defense that the accused person reasonably believed that the person was eligible to remarry.

As added by Acts 1976, P.L.148, SEC.6. Amended by Acts 1977, P.L.340, SEC.85; P.L.158-2013, SEC.548.

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