APPROACH TO THE CRIME OF BIGAMY IN SPANISH CRIMINAL LAW: EVOLUTION AND CURRENT CLASSIFICATION OF A CRIME AGAINST FAMILY RELATIONS

This article aims to offer an approximate and general view of the crime of bigamy in the Spanish legal-criminal system. To this end, it starts with an assessment of the constitutional reality of marriage in Spain, and then delves into the progressive evolution that this type of crime has undergone in Spanish criminal history. It focuses on the study of the main dogmatic aspects of the crime of bigamy, whose current validity in Spanish criminal law is increasingly discussed by certain scholars, that consider this crime as the last vestige of a Criminal Law that guarantees morality and civil order.