Most of the cases are of men taking a second wife, rather than women taking a second husband.
Mr Turk rescued her from a life of potential dishonour by taking her under his wing as a second wife.
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French law explicitly outlaws it, and denies second wives the right to join their husbands in France (though if a second wife dies, her children are sometimes allowed to join their French-based father).
Meanwhile, a coalition of some of the nation's biggest activist groups, including Komnas Perempuan, Friday welcomed a Supreme Court ruling that a district head in West Java can be impeached after reports that he took a 17-year-old as a second wife last year and divorced her several days later in a text message.
One or two rather sad souls holding placards and pictures of the late princess outside the White House didn't provide evidence of a country unwilling to embrace a prince with a new, second wife.
So part of the effect Dr Pollet has discovered might be caused by the fact that, obviously, a man is older when he takes a second or subsequent wife than when he marries for the first time.
He is further charged with deliberately crashing his car in Auckland, in February 1999, in a bid to kill his second wife, Felicity Drumm, who was a passenger.
He didn't take a salary for two years, relying on savings, a second mortgage and his wife's income.
Tony Sharman, 60, of Towcester, sleeps in a second bedroom in their home as his wife Anne, 57, has in a special bed which is too small for them both.
Berlusconi, a conservative media mogul-turned-politician, has been dogged by allegations of corruption and is the middle of a messy divorce from his second wife.
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Malcolm Webster denies crashing a car in New Zealand in 1999 in a bid to kill his second wife Felicity Drumm to claim insurance money.
He was convicted for a second time in May of murdering his wife Arlene.
"It takes an extra flight to get here, but it's so worth it, " says Jim Caccavo, a Californian from San Diego whose wife and kids like Moonlight Basin so much they bought a second home here.
In 1977, Sandusky and his wife started a nonprofit called the Second Mile, to help troubled and disadvantaged boys.
Mocked for his lavish lifestyle, and a private life that saw him divorce his second wife immediately after his election in 2007 and go on to marry singer Carla Bruni, the French never truly warmed to Sarkozy.
But speaking to us before leaving for Nepal, he said he could not imagine life any other way - even now that he is a pensioner and has a three year-old daughter by his second wife Louise.
Henry's second wife Ann Boleyn was watching a game of Real Tennis in Whitehall when she was arrested, and according to the official Web site of Hampton Court, legend has it he was playing when told she had been executed.
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Then Obama took a turn on the dance floor with wife Michelle, who wore a gown by Jason Wu for the second inaugural in a row.
Woodcock, who in retirement became a member of the Wayne State University Board of Governors, was survived by his second wife, Sharon, whom he married in Beijing in 1978, two daughters, a son, three grandchildren and a sister.
His second wife, Elizabeth Jane Howard, a well-known novelist herself, left him in 1980.
His second wife, Lisa DiStefano, was a Playboy model. (DiStefano was a Sea Shepherd volunteer, and Lance still is.) His first wife, Starlet Lum, was a Greenpeace bookkeeper.
Aguiar also signed a will promising to give all his assets to this second wife Cleide, who was 40 years his junior.
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His second wife, Wassila Ben Ammar, became a power behind the throne.
He studied law at Northwestern University, until he was forced to leave over an affair with a teacher's wife (who later became his second of three wives).
His second wife attempted suicide after he left her for a fashion model.
Rarely seen in church, he is a divorcee who had the first of his children by his second wife even while he was married to the first.
On the evening of Nov. 6, in the packed Rockefeller Center salesroom of Christie's auction house, four buyers were vying for a 1955 Picasso oil of Jacqueline, the artist's second wife.
In 2002 Redstone divorced his wife of 52 years and a year later married a second one 40 years his junior.
Mr Shaw retired from active management on his 100th birthday, in favour of a much younger manager, his then 77-year-old second wife, Mona Fong.
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