| Bigamy,should we care?
Posted: 10/20/2009 9:41:16 AM | Bigamy has been mentioned on here before but this is a different take on the subject,on thursday there is a program about a woman who was married 5 times but never divorced.As she never got divorced she wont have been able to claim half of any joint assetts so shouldnt have benifeted financially (and neither would any solicitors) this being so should we care?
this woman has had other issues in her life(acording to the tv guide!) mental illness adiction and neglect, is it right to send her to prison? does it really matter so much? | |
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| Bigamy,should we care?
Posted: 10/20/2009 10:00:58 AM |
As she never got divorced she wont have been able to claim half of any joint assetts so shouldnt have benifeted financially
Unless of course the husband died first. And she got far more than a "benefit payment" out of someone (times 5) who thought he was sharing with someone more important than a mistress.
She entered into a legal contract 4 times knowing that she had no legal right to do so. Put that into a business context and prison sounds about right. Of course, as she has mental issues, I hope she does get a secure unit and treatment, but on the bare facts then a custodial sentence is, in my opinion, correct. | |
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| Bigamy,should we care?
Posted: 10/20/2009 10:21:13 AM | Black and White then she should go to prison as she has entered into a legal contract more than once whilst knowing that she was unable to do so.
The grey area comes if she was deceiving many many men at once and was doing it for financial gain, if it was seperate relationships and she gave herself emotional and committedly to each 'marriage' then I have less of a problem and she should avoid prison with taking into account her emotional and mental state. | |
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| Bigamy,should we care?
Posted: 10/20/2009 1:37:56 PM | | I'm sort of with Pud, but with the proviso that had she benefited illegally from any of the relationships, ie had she inherited automatically as a spouse but had it been a common law relationship she wouldn't have benefited at all, then off to the big house for obtaining money by deception. | |
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| Bigamy,should we care?
Posted: 10/21/2009 8:30:18 AM | Why she did it I suppose I don’t know…but doing it more than once to me just seems insane anyway! 5 Mother-in Laws - eh no thanks!
I’d have thought that was punishment enough! | |
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| Bigamy,should we care?
Posted: 10/21/2009 8:42:42 AM | Send her to prison and throw away the key greedy biatch marrying 5 times when there are poor women like me who cant even get some poor sap to marry me the once  | |
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| Bigamy,should we care?
Posted: 10/21/2009 8:51:28 AM | If Mr right came along and asked me to maary him I would be tempted  I have to wait a further 2 and half years til i can divorce without the ex's consent.
Anyhow she broke the law 4times.. she deserves all she gets | |
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| Bigamy,should we care?
Posted: 10/21/2009 10:57:14 AM | I can't understand people getting married once, let alone 5 times - no wonder it says she has mental health issues!
Seriously though, I don't think bigamy is the big deal it was a few decades ago when people tended to stay married to the one partner their whole life. Now, we're used to people having more than one spouse in their lifetime, so rather than it being a crime if they 'forget' to divorce their first partner before marrying the next, it could just be seen that the subsequent marriages aren't legally recognised. If the person benefits financially from doing this then that should be treated as fraud in the same way any kind of financial fraud is treated.
And maybe we could deprive the divorce lawyers and save everyone a whole lot of money by automatically anulling marriages after a couple hasn't lived together for a certain number of years? | |
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| Bigamy,should we care?
Posted: 10/22/2009 8:07:37 AM | We should care only about the financial and emotional loss to the 'victims'...more the emotional if you ask me, as money can be replaced.
But then the law is an antiquated arse...no-one but the victim should have the right to punish...not some prat in a powdered wig.
Bob. | |
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| Bigamy,should we care?
Posted: 10/22/2009 3:27:49 PM | Ermmmmm - bigamy should be allowed.. even encouraged
Every woman should have 5 husbands of which every one should have 5 wives etc etc
And we would all live happily ever after - one large happy family  | |
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| Bigamy,should we care?
Posted: 10/22/2009 3:54:28 PM | I agree with you. I don't really think sending her to prison is the right thing to do IMHO.
As you so rigthtly mentioned, this woman suffers from mental illness and as such the state should provide her with the help she needs. I don't think sending her to prison is the solution in this case, as she'll be made to suffer even more than she is/has already. | |
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| Bigamy,should we care?
Posted: 10/22/2009 5:24:47 PM | | so few people in the uk - less than 1 in 10- are christian that institutionalised monogamy is no longer justified | |
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