dead marriage
A marriage whose substance has disintegrated; a marriage that has irretrievably broken down.
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trigamy
trigamy (trig-[schwa]-mee), n. The act of marrying a person while legally married to someone else and bigamously married to yet another. [Cases: Bigamy 1. C.J.S. Bigamy §§ 2–6, 8.] “Trigamy, literally three marriages, is often used for a special situation. ‘Trigamy,’ in the sense of the special problem of the third wife, stems from the