We were surprised to learn in this article that many brides deliberately practiced bigamy in their rush to accept spousal benefits and insurance payments. One New York lawyer remarked,
“I am regularly receiving pleas from servicemen who discover that the women they married on very slight acquaintances were already married to someone else. Maimi and Maimi Beach are two of the special hunting grounds for these love racketeers. I have just received a letter from a man who married a girl in Florida, only to discover later that she had been previously married to at least two other soldiers, each time under a different name and address. She was drawing allotments from all three. The only way this soldier can stop part of his pay from being sent to her is to get an annulment of their marriage.”
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