CODE OF VIRGINIA

EXCEPTIONS TO PRECEDING SECTIONS (§ 18.2-364)

Sections 18.2-362 and 18.2-363 shall not extend to a person whose husband or
wife shall have been continuously absent from such person for seven years next
before marriage of such person to another, and shall not have been known by such
person to be living within that time; nor to a person who can show that the
second marriage was contracted in good faith under a reasonable belief that the
former consort was dead; nor to a person who shall, at the time of the
subsequent marriage, have been divorced from the bond of the former marriage;
nor to a person whose former marriage was void.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 20-42; 1975, cc. 14, 15.