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.
“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.”
Yes, but here is the ringer in THIS situation, where is any documentation that he was married PREVIOUSLY to his marraige to Ann Dunham?
I get what you are saying here. So how on earth would anyone be able to obtain birth certificates for Kezia’s children? I know that I had read that tribal marraiges were not recognized, but did Obama bother to get licensed and legally marry Kezia?
And if Ann DID go to Kenya, what a surprise that would be. Rolling into a quaint little village that you are now a part of... so bohemian she is!! And oh, by the way, this is my first wife. Not not ex-wife, wife #1. You are wife #2. Oh to be a fly on that hut wall. ;o)
I also read that Sr’s father was VERY upset at him marrying Ann and even wrote Stanley and Madelyn a very nasty note saying he didn’t want HIS bloodline ‘sullied’ with the blood of a white woman. Whoooooo boy.