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Anonymous
(Querist) 01 March 2011
This query is : Resolved
First wife deserted and husband got second marriage with out divorce and same registered. Now Husband died. Second wife wants to claim the benefits. The department is asking legal heir certificate.Can the second wife applied for legal heir certificate without informing the first marriage relation. issue are there in first marriage and no issues in second marriage. All this year first wife not turn up.Can the second wife applied for legal heir certificate?
Arvind Singh Chauhan
(Expert) 01 March 2011
According to fact narrated by you. Second marriage is void. Second wife is not legal heir.
Kirti Kar Tripathi
(Expert) 02 March 2011
in every case, second marriage during the subsentence of first marriage is void.thus whenever, she will ask legal heir certificate, this marriage will be held void.
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