West Virginia Code § 61-8-2

Same -- Effect of absence, divorce or void marriage
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The preceding section shall not extend to a person whose former husband or wife has been
continuously absent from such person for seven years next before the marriage of such
person to another, and shall not have been known by such person to be living within that
time; nor to a person who shall, at the time of the subsequent marriage, have been divorced
from the bond of the former marriage, and the term fixed by the decree of thee court granting
the divorce, in which the parties may not remarry save to each other, shall have elapsed, or
whose former marriage shall, at that time, have been declared void by rthe sentence of a
court of competent jurisdiction.

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