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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Moreover, Naruhito has the example of his grandfather, Hirohito, who flatly refused to take a second wife despite a worrying succession of daughters.
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).
It is hard to be sure how many men have more than one wife in Turkey, because second marriages have no legal validity offspring from a second wife are usually registered under the name of the first.
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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.
The prime minister relaxed in a white Japanese kimono and his second wife, a former TV actress, poured the tea.
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.
To pick a recent case study, the Sunday Mirror reported on September 5th that the estranged second wife of an obscure Conservative MP was working as a prostitute.
He was convicted for a second time in May of murdering his wife Arlene.
After winning a second term, he resigned in December 2006 due to a scandal involving his wife's use of state employees as chauffeurs.
"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.
"McKenzie's drug addiction for 35 years has been the result of many unpleasant experiences, " Michelle Phillips, John Phillips' second wife, told CNN in a statement.
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.
With time the web of influence extended both to the husbands of Mr Ben Ali's four adult daughters and to the many relatives of his second wife, Leila Trabelsi, a former hairdresser whom he married in 1992.
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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