In early 2018 Amanda Teague, from Drogheda, in County Louth, married a man named Jack Teague. It doesn't seem to have worked out, for a number of reasons. She's from Ireland, and he's from elsewhere (Haiti). She's law-abiding, and he well, wasn't. She's alive, and he's been dead for more than 300 years, having been executed in 1753. Now she's ended the relationship, and Ms. Teague notes that "So I feel it’s time to let everyone know that my marriage is over. I will explain all in due course but for now all I want to say is be VERY careful when dabbling in spirituality, it’s not something to mess with.” I'm assuming she's not asking for alimony.
She had arranged to marry him offshore, where the ceremony would be legal. In Ireland, it would not have been recognized (because she was marrying a dead person and/or a ghost). More here from the Irish Post.
More about the couple's meeting and spiritual romance, at least from the bride's perspective, here from Newsweek.
Some countries, including France, allow marriages between living and dead individuals and/or spirits (France allows posthumous marriages, though not marriages to spirits). The Newsweek article notes that such marriages take place between persons who have known each other in life. The practice is called necrogamy. Under Article 171 of the French Civil Code an individual may apply for a posthumous marriage. Here's the text of the article.
Art. 171
(Act no 59-1583 of 31 Dec. 1959)
The President of the Republic may, for grave reasons, authorize the celebration of the marriage where one of the future spouses is dead after the completion of the official formalities indicating unequivocally his or her consent. In this case, the effects of the marriage date back to the day preceding that of the death of the spouse.
However, this marriage may not involve any right of intestate succession to the benefit of the survivor and no matrimonial regime is considered to have existed between the spouses.
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