Question: How does Texas law resolve conflicts when a person appears to have been married to more than one spouse?
Answer:
Under Texas law, if a person has been married more than once to different people, the law assumes that the most recent marriage is the valid one. This presumption holds unless someone can prove that the earlier marriage was actually valid and never dissolved. It doesn’t matter how long the earlier marriage lasted or how public it was—what matters is whether it’s still legally binding. Until someone comes forward and proves that an earlier marriage never ended properly, the most recent one stands strong.
See Tex. Fam. Code § 1.102 (Most Recent Marriage Presumed Valid).