Can a Hindu married woman marry another person without getting divorce, since husband not willing to divorce?
Here its not only the question of second marriage during the lifetime of the existing spouse which is illegal & punishable offence but otherwise too if one say he or she is least bothered about the legality of this issue, the very fact the second marriage will not give this person the status of a husband or wife in the eye of law. God forbid if this person looses his or her second spouse/life partner by death then he or she won’t be able to legally inherent or claim any property of the deceased by succession which only a legal spouse could do. The very fact the second marriage will be keeping a sword hanging over his or her head for getting punished for the offence of bigamy by imprisonment & fine will always be there. The society will also not recognize such marriage & such person will not get the due respect he or she deserve after this second marriage unless it is done in a legal manner which is by dissolving the first marriage by decree of divorce & then marrying the second time. S
