Alabama LAW states:
Section 30-2-10
Sixty-day restriction on remarriage of parties after grant of divorce or pending appeal of divorce.
When a judgment has been entered granting a divorce in this state, the court shall order that neither party shall again marry, except to each other, until 60 days after the judgment is entered, and that if an appeal is taken within 60 days, neither party shall again marry, except to each other, during the pendency of said appeal.
(Code 1907, §3811; Code 1923, §7425; Code 1940, T. 34, §38.)
Tennessee LAW states:
Bigamy and Incest
39-15-301. Bigamy. -
(a) A person commits bigamy who:
(1) Is married and purports to marry a person other than the person's spouse in this state under circumstances that would, but for the person's existing marriage, constitute a marriage; or
(2) Knows that a person other than the person's spouse is married and purports to marry the person in this state under circumstances that would, but for the person's existing marriage, constitute a marriage.
(b) It is a defense to prosecution under subdivision (a)(1) that the person reasonably believed that the person's marriage had been dissolved by death, divorce or annulment.
(c) Bigamy is a Class A misdemeanor
36-4-101. Grounds for divorce from bonds of matrimony. —
(a) The following are causes of divorce from the bonds of matrimony:
(2) Either party has knowingly entered into a second marriage, in violation of a previous marriage, still subsisting;
(3) Either party has committed adultery
(11) The husband or wife is guilty of such cruel and inhuman treatment or conduct towards the spouse as renders cohabitation unsafe and improper, which may also be referred to in pleadings as inappropriate marital conduct;
(12) The husband or wife has offered such indignities to the spouse's person as to render the spouse's position intolerable, and thereby forced the spouse to withdraw;
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Now, I find those words quite interesting..."to withdraw"...as the Coroner states in his "official" fifteen minute investigation, my son "Hanged Himself".
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Military Divorce Manual:
(Last page, paragraph 2)
RIGHT OF PARTIES TO REMARRY AFTER DIVORCE:
Neither party shall remarry, except to each other, until sixty (60) days after the decree is rendered: and, if an appeal is taken, neither party shall again remarry except to each other during the pendency of the appeal.
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Let's define "rendered":
"divorce is final when the judgment of divorce is signed by the judge and filed with the clerk of the court"
Brian's "alleged wife's" divorce was filed with the clerk of court on APRIL 26, 2006.