Okla. Stat. tit. 43 § 123

Current through Laws 2024, c. 453.
Section 123 - Remarriage and cohabitation - Appeal from judgment

It shall be unlawful for either party to an action for divorce whose former husband or wife is living to marry in this state a person other than the divorced spouse within six (6) months from date of decree of divorce granted in this state, or to cohabit with such other person in this state during said period if the marriage took place in another state; and if an appeal be commenced from said decree, it shall be unlawful for either party to such cause to marry any other person and cohabit with such person in this state until the expiration of thirty (30) days from the date on which final judgment shall be rendered pursuant to such appeal. Any person violating the provisions of this section by such marriage shall be deemed guilty of the felony of bigamy. Any person violating the provisions of this section by such cohabitation shall be deemed guilty of the felony of adultery.

An appeal from a judgment granting or denying a divorce shall be made in the same manner as in any other civil case.

Okla. Stat. tit. 43, § 123

R.L. 1910, § 4971; Amended by Laws 1925, HB 87, c. 119, p. 166, §1; Amended by Laws 1957, HB 770, p. 82, § 1; Amended by Laws 1969, SB 93, c. 322, § 1; Amended by Laws 1970, HB 1497, c. 5, § 1, eff. 1/1/1971; Renumbered from 12 O.S. § 1280 by Laws 1989, SB 121, c. 333, §1, eff. 11/1/1989; Amended by Laws 1997, HB 1213, c. 133, § 462 (effective date amended to July 1, 1999, by Laws 1998, 1st Extr. Sess., HB 1002, c. 2, §§23-26, emerg. eff. 6/19/1998).