Penal Law § 255.20
Unlawfully Procuring a Marriage License, Bigamy, Adultery: Defense

Published: 2014-09-22

§ 255.20 Unlawfully procuring a marriage license, bigamy, adultery: defense.

In any prosecution for unlawfully procuring a marriage license, bigamy, or adultery, it is an affirmative defense that the defendant acted under a reasonable belief that both he and the other person to the marriage or prospective marriage or to the sexual intercourse, as the case may be, were unmarried.