Is it illegal to be with a married woman?

Being with a married woman is not illegal. However, if you know that you have a spouse and live with them in the name of husband and wife, it constitutes bigamy.

Bigamy refers to the act of marrying someone who has a spouse or knowing that someone else has a spouse.

The types of bigamy mainly include:

1, registered marriage of a spouse, registered marriage with others, bigamy.

2, registered with the original spouse, not registered with others to live together as husband and wife and bigamy.

3. Not registered for marriage with spouse and others, but cohabited with spouse and others as husband and wife successively or at the same time and remarried.

4. cohabiting with the original spouse without registration, but cohabiting as husband and wife, and then marrying others and bigamy.

5, no spouse, but knowing that the other party has a spouse and remarried to register marriage or cohabitation as husband and wife.

The evidence needed to determine the crime of bigamy is:

1. Legally registered marriage procedure or legally recognized de facto marriage relationship between spouse and a third party; It is necessary to collect direct evidence such as forged marriage certificate, birth certificate of bigamy and children born to a third party in marriage registration.

2. Evidence of long-term stable cohabitation between the extramarital affair parties and a third person, intimate photos, videos, text messages, etc. In addition, there are witness testimonies of relatives or friends of both parties, letters of guarantee and confessions written by parties involved in extramarital affairs.

legal ground

Article 258 of the Criminal Law stipulates that whoever commits bigamy while having a spouse, or marries someone knowing that they have a spouse, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than two years or criminal detention.