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bigamy

The act of marrying a second (or a third) person while still married to one’s first spouse.
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Now she has written a book called Divorced, Bigamist, Bereaved?
Looking back at marriage
Last night, another bigamy victim, Jann Wallace, from Leamington Spa, gave an insight into the mind of serial bigamists. She was the third victim of vicar Roderick Sangster, who was jailed for three years for bigamy in November.
Bigamy victims are no fools; VICTIM SAYS MEN WERE TRICKED BY 'PREDATOR'
Coronation Street's Peter Barlow is unmasked as a bigamist by his two wives - in front of shocked regulars at the Rovers Return.
It's a double take for Corrie star Peter
Dr Prem Misra, an expert on sexual problems, said: "Basically, bigamists have abnormal personalities whereby they get a little bit of satisfaction and pleasure from keeping things going.
Blokes who just can't let go and move on
The maximum sentence is seven years in jail, although judges are rarely so harsh and the average sentence for convicted bigamists is four to six months.
BIGAMY DOWNFALL OF BARLOW
(2.) Richard Boyer, Lives of the Bigamists: Marriage, Family, and Community in Colonial Mexico (Albuquerque, 1995); Mary Elizabeth Perry, Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville (Princeton, 1990).
Vir: Perceptions of Manliness in Andalucia and Mexico, 1561-1699. (Reviews)
BBC documentary Bigamy, Stories Of Deception catches up with various bigamists - all in the multiple marriage business for differing reasons, all with their own stories to tell.
Two Women... one husband: Wed to the same man; Sandra MacGregor and Angela Jackson got a shock when they discovered that they shared a husband. MERLE BROWN probes the murky world of bigamy
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