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Can a married Filipina can marry her bf in india

Last activity 11 April 2017 by Bhavna

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Mae1989

Can a married woman like me can marry my indian bf in India?. He wants to marry me in India and that's what I want too...but the problem is I'm still married here in the Philippines although we r separated but still the paper is still legal.

Fred

How can it be legal to do something so obviously illegal?

Section 494 - Indian Penal Code

https://indiankanoon.org/doc/508426/

Marrying again during lifetime of husband or wife.—Whoever, having a husband or wife living, marries in any case in which such marriage is void by reason of its taking place during the life of such husband or wife, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.
(Exception) —This section does not extend to any person whose marriage with such husband or wife has been declared void by a Court of competent jurisdiction, nor to any person who contracts a marriage during the life of a former husband or wife, if such husband or wife, at the time of the subsequent marriage, shall have been continually absent from such person for the space of seven years, and shall not have been heard of by such person as being alive within that time provided the person contracting such subsequent marriage shall, before such marriage takes place, inform the person with whom such marriage is contracted of the real state of facts so far as the same are within his or her knowledge.

Bhavna

Hello everyone,

Closing this thread. There's nothing else to add to this thread.

All the best,
Bhavna

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