Can I be held liable for Bigamy? This is one of the  most common questions that has been filling up our inbox for quite sometime now.  One of the emails that we received partly reads:

“I got married twice in the Philippines in 1990 and second in 1996, only that the second marriage was not registered intentionally. I took all the records of our marriage including the marriage contract from our minister but did not report it to the local civil registrar’s office. Me and my second wife went abroad and married here again in the U.S.  There is no record of my second marriage in the local civil registrar or in the NSO. We are living in the United States until now.I am planning to take a vacation in the Philippines but worried that my first wife will file a bigamy case against me?Can I be held liable for bigamy? Please help.”