Wisconsin Code § 944.05

Bigamy
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(1) Whoever does any of the following is
guilty of a Class I felony:
(a) Contracts a marriage in this state with knowledge that his
or her prior marriage is not dissolved; or
(b) Contracts a marriage in this state with knowledge that the
prior marriage of the person he or she marries is not dissolved; or
(c) Cohabits in this state with a person whom he or she married outside this state with knowledge that his or her own prior
marriage had not been dissolved or with knowledge that the prior
marriage of the person he or she married had not been dissolved.
(2) In this section “cohabit” means to live together under the
representation or appearance of being married.

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