CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Marital Status
......Validity of Marriage
.........Estoppel
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When both parties knew W had prior existing marriage at time of their marriage ceremony, H estopped to deny validity of marriage in dissolution filed 15 years later.

A “commitment ceremony,” even if guests thought it was a marriage, was insufficient to constitute “remarriage” under Fam. Code §4337.

Party who has counseled another to divorce and counseled remarriage before prior judgment is final is estopped to deny validity of second marriage.

Where H married W and lived with her with full knowledge she had obtained invalid Mexican divorce from prior H, he was estopped to contest it.