CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Marital Status
......Nullity
.........Grounds
............Void Marriage: Bigamy
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Bigamous marriage is void or voidable.

A person who believes, mistakenly but in good faith, that he or she has been divorced can qualify as a putative spouse.

The operative date to determine putative spouse status is the date of the marriage.

A bigamous marriage which is valid in a foreign jurisdiction is void in CA.

The public policy exception to comity doctrine precludes recognition of foreign law where it is offensive to our public policy and prejudicial to recognized standards of morality.