Article 279 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE SIXTEEN. Crimes Against Civil Status and Bigamy
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
Up to five years of imprisonment or from 180 to 360 days fine shall be imposed on anyone who, being united with a person in marriage not dissolved nor declared null, contracts another marriage with the legal formalities.