Legal Question in Family Law in Maryland

Re: Married to a bigamist

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Re: Married to a bigamist

If your "husband" was married to someone else at the time of your marriage, you were never legally married. You should amend your complaint for divorce, or file a counter-complaint if he is the one who filed the divorce complaint, and file for an annullment. The evidence you have of his having been married should be all you need to demonstrate that your marriage was never valid, but was what in the law is called "void ab initio," or in plain English was never really a marriage. I hope you have a lawyer representing you already, but if you don't you had better get one. The annullment should be a simple cut and dried matter, but it will raise new issues about property. If you were never really married, there can be no such thing as "marital property." There will still be a need to sort out what property belongs to whom, but the marital property approach won't quite be appropriate. You will need a lawyer who will be smart and aggressive to pursue probably unusual legal theories to gain you a financial award which might compensate you for the harm done to you by fraudulently involving you in a bigamous situation. Do not try to handle this without an attorney.