In a 17-page decision penned by Associate Justice Marvic Leonen and released on Monday, March 21, the SC said: “A party to a civil marriage who converts to Islam and contracts another marriage, despite the first marriage’s subsistence, is guilty of bigamy.”“Likewise guilty is the spouse in the subsequent marriage. Conversion to Islam does not operate to exculpate them from criminal liability,” the decision added.
Source: Converting to Islam to marry a second spouse is bigamy, SC rules
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