Title
TITLE 43 - MARRIAGE AND FAMILY (INCLUDES 2019 POCKET PART)
Body
TITLE 43
MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
Chapter
1. General Provisions
5. Office of Child Support Services
6. Child Support Guidelines
CHAPTER 1
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section
1. Marriage as civil contract-Consent of parties
2. Who may be married
3. Who may not be married
4. Who may perform marriages
5. Form of marriage
6. Report
7. Violation of preceding section
8. Prohibited marriages declared void
9. Common law marriage
10. Adultery defined-Who may institute prosecution
11. Punishment for adultery
12. Bigamy defined
13. Exceptions to rule of bigamy
14. Punishment of bigamy
? 1. Marriage as civil contract-Consent of parties
Marriage, so far as its validity in law is concerned, is a civil contract between one man and one woman, to which the consent of the parties, capable in law of contracting, is essential.
LA 26-04, eff. June 18, 2004.
? 2. Who may be married
Every person who shall have attained the age of eighteen (18) years shall be capable in law of contracting marriage, if otherwise competent. But in all cases where the person is less than eighteen (18) years of age, the consent of the mother, father, or guardian of such minor shall be given; otherwise such marriage shall be null and void unless it shall appear that the parties have no parent or guardian then living, and at the time of marriage are self-dependent.
LA 26-04, eff. June 18, 2004.
? 3. Who may not be married
No marriage shall be contracted whilst either of the parties has a husband or wife living; nor between parties who are nearer of kin than first cousins whether of the half or of the whole blood; nor between parties who are insane or idiotic nor between parties of the same gender.
LA 26-04, eff. June 18, 2004.
? 4. Who may perform marriages
Marriages may be solemnized by any of the Judges of the Courts of this Nation, or by any ordained minister of the Gospel in regular communion with any religio...
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