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Wisconsin Marriage Laws § 765.24

Removal of impediments to subsequent marriage.

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Wisconsin Statutes 765.24

Removal of impediments to subsequent marriage.

If a person during the lifetime of a spouse with whom the marriage is in force, enters into a subsequent marriage contract in accordance with s. 765.16, and the parties thereto live together thereafter as a married couple, and such subsequent marriage contract was entered into by one of the parties in good faith, in the full belief that the former spouse was dead, or that the former marriage had been annulled, or dissolved by a divorce, or without knowledge of such former marriage, the parties shall, after the impediment to their marriage has been removed by the death or divorce of the other party to such former marriage, if they continue to live together as a married couple in good faith on the part of one of them, be held to have been legally married from and after the removal of such impediment and any children born during such subsequent marriage shall be considered as the marital children of both parties.

1979 c. 32 ss. 48, 92 (2); Stats. 1979 s. 765.24; 1983 a. 447.; AMD SB 45 2025

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§ 770.15 Forms.
§ 770.01 Definitions.
§ 770.05 Criteria for forming a domestic partnership.
§ 770.07 Application and declaration.
§ 770.12 Terminating a domestic partnership.
§ 770.10 Completion and filing of declaration.
§ 770.17 Fees to county clerk.
§ 770.18 Records.
§ 765.001 Title, intent and construction of chs. 765 to 768.
§ 765.04 Marriage abroad to circumvent the laws.
§ 765.02 Marriageable age; who may contract.
§ 765.01 A civil contract.
§ 765.03 Who shall not marry; divorced persons.
§ 765.09 Identification of parties; statement of qualifications.
§ 765.002 Definitions.
§ 765.05 Marriage license; by whom issued.
§ 765.035 Validity of marriages of epileptics.
§ 765.08 Application for marriage license.
§ 765.19 Delivery and filing of marriage document.
§ 765.13 Form of marriage document.
§ 765.11 Objections to marriage.
§ 765.14 Form of marriage document when solemnized by parties.
§ 765.15 Fee to county clerk.
§ 765.31 Action to recover penalties.
§ 765.12 Marriage license, when authorized; corrections; contents.
§ 765.21 Unlawful marriages void; validation.
§ 765.22 Immaterial irregularities as to authority of person officiating.
§ 765.23 Immaterial irregularities otherwise.
§ 765.24 Removal of impediments to subsequent marriage.
§ 765.16 Marriage contract, how made; officiating person.
§ 765.30 Penalties

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