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In August, 1990 I was married to a man in Michigan. On an anniversary trip to Reno, Nevada four years later, we were married to each other again. (We had been told by an attorney in Michigan it was not against the law for us to do so before we married again.) In 2003 my husband divorced me from our marriage in Michigan but not in Nevada. Are we still married?
Asked on June 27, 2009 under Family Law, Florida
Answers:
Joanna Mitchell / Joanna Mitchell & Associates, P.A.
Answered 15 years ago | Contributor
A person does not have to divorce the other person in the State where they were married. If you were originally married in Michigan, and then remarried in Nevada, even if he thereafter filed for divorce in Florida (or some other State) you would be legally divorced, so long as Florida (or the other State) had jurisdiction over the proceedings as a result of the residency of one of the partys and/or meeting any other jurisdictional requirements of the State where the divorce was filed. So, as long as the divorce proceeding was proper and finalized, you are divorced.
Joanna M. Mitchell / Mitchell & Associates, PA
Answered 15 years ago | Contributor
A person does not have to divorce the other person in the State where they were married. If you were originally married in Michigan, and then remarried in Nevada, even if he thereafter filed for divorce in Florida (or some other State) you would be legally divorced, so long as Florida (or the other State) had jurisdiction over the proceedings as a result of the residency of one of the partys and/or meeting any other jurisdictional requirements of the State where the divorce was filed. So, as long as the divorce proceeding was proper and finalized, you are divorced.
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