Sister Wives Fight To Make Bigamy Legal
July 12 2011, Published 1:00 p.m. ET
By Breaking Celebrity News Staff
America's most famous polygamous family are launching a legal battle to make their lifestyle legal, Breaking Celebrity News can report.
Kody Brown and his four "wives" -- the stars of the controversial TLC reality show Sister Wives - will file a lawsuit Wednesday challenging Utah's bigamy law, which prosecutes families like theirs, according to Brown's attorney Jonathan Turley.
Brown is only legally married to Meri, but calls Janelle, Christine and Robyn his wives too.
They live together with their 16 children, but have been forced to move to Nevada after police and Utah County prosecutors launching a bigamy investigation.
"We are not demanding recognition of polygamous marriage," their attorney, Jonathan Turley wrote on his blog. "We are only challenging the right of the state to prosecute people for their private relations and demanding equal treatment with other citizens living their lives according to their own beliefs.