Bigamy Claim Following Unchallenged Foreign Divorce Decree

The case involved a dispute over the validity of a marriage celebrated abroad where one party, having previously been married, claimed the prior divorce decree was invalid due to lack of proper notification, leading to a judgment that the second marriage was bigamous. The highest court upheld the lower court's decision, reasoning that a divorce decree, even if challenged domestically for procedural defects like lack of notification, remains valid and binding in the jurisdiction where it was rendered until formally set aside, and therefore, the subsequent marriage contracted while the first spouse was legally still considered married under the foreign decree was void due to bigamy.