You know, I can see on another link where it says mother is US citizen and unmarried, but I think it was never a question of married or unmarried because by having a divorce, it legally makes an assumption there was a marraige. And he divorce decree gives a marraige date as well.
No, the divorce doesn’t make the marriage legal. If that were so, lying bigamists could marry all they want..get a divorce..and say..see there..the marriage was legal all along.
They have tried a different tactic along the same vein.
When courts bring up Bigamy...some have tried to claim the marriage was never valid so they can’t be prosecuted. MOre involved than that but that is the bottom line. Courts don’t go for it.
There it a putative spouse doctrine that some states recognize that help protect the spouse when it comes to dividing assets.
The UK law has something similiar along the line of protecting children when it comes to assets. I think it was a 1986 law ..but that could be way off...I dont really remember.
You have to recognize the basic problem and then go find ways to address it.
So far, just about everyone here has ignored this issue. Recognize it and find some law to argue for your side.
One way is that BC. If valid...I would be using it as proof they were married in a customary marriage in Kenya since Kenya didn’t recognize statutory mixed with customary marriages.
Obama wouldn’t be a US citizen in that case.