KLB wrote: ↑Tue Aug 27, 2019 3:19 pm
It's difficult to understand the outcome, especially given this provision of the Texas Family Code:
Sec. 6.202. MARRIAGE DURING EXISTENCE OF PRIOR MARRIAGE. (a) A marriage is void if entered into when either party has an existing marriage to another person that has not been dissolved by legal action or terminated by the death of the other spouse.
(b) The later marriage that is void under this section becomes valid when the prior marriage is dissolved if, after the date of the dissolution, the parties have lived together as husband and wife and represented themselves to others as being married.
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 7, Sec. 1, eff. April 17, 1997.
In seemingly anomalous cases, there's almost always more to the story. My guess is we have not been given all the relevant facts.
Todays judge rulings are all based on emotion of the judge. It has NOTHING to do with law.