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PBA: Yeah, but in New York you go to jail for polygamy if you don’t give the Get first.

I had a friend who got divorced shortly after his first wedding. About a year later, he got remarried, but his civil divorce wasn’t complete yet. So he had a rav from Israel be mesader kiddushin, so that it wouldn’t be done by a member of the American clergy.