Is it illegal for a soldier's wife to cheat?

If the spouse of an active serviceman is derailed, the circumstances are bad or the relationship between husband and wife is seriously broken, it is suspected that a third party is involved in the military marriage. According to the provisions of the criminal law, anyone who cohabits or marries with the spouse of an active serviceman shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention.

The infidelity of one spouse violates the duty of loyalty between husband and wife and does not constitute a crime. If derailment constitutes bigamy, criminal responsibility may be investigated in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Law.

Bigamy refers to the act of marrying someone who has a spouse or knowing that someone else has a spouse.

The so-called marriage knowing that others have a spouse means that although I have no spouse, I know that the other person has a spouse and marry him (including registered marriage or de facto marriage).

The constitutive requirements of bigamy crime are: the object of bigamy crime is monogamous marriage relationship.

The crime of bigamy objectively shows that the actor must have bigamy. That is, a person with a spouse marries another person, or marries another person knowing that he has a spouse, which constitutes bigamy.

The subject of bigamy crime is the general subject. First, the spouse has established a marriage relationship with others during the existence of the husband-wife relationship; Second, people who have no spouse get married knowing that they have a spouse.

Subjectively, the crime of bigamy is manifested as direct intention, that is, knowing that others have a spouse and marrying them, or deliberately marrying others because they have a spouse. If one spouse really doesn't know that the other spouse has a spouse and marries him or lives with him as husband and wife, then the person without a spouse does not constitute bigamy, and the person with a spouse constitutes bigamy.

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Legal basis:

Article 259 of the Criminal Law

Whoever knowingly lives with or marries the spouse of an active serviceman shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention.

Whoever rapes a soldier's wife by taking advantage of his power shall be convicted and punished in accordance with the provisions of Article 236 of this Law.