Chapter 451 - Marriage, Marriage Contracts, and Rights of Married Women

Chapter 451 - Marriage, Marriage Contracts, and Rights of Married Women

Section 451.010 Marriage a civil contract.
Section 451.020 Certain marriages prohibited — official issuing licenses to certain persons guilty of misdemeanor.
Section 451.022 Public policy, same sex marriages prohibited — license may not be issued.
Section 451.030 Bigamous marriage void.
Section 451.040 Marriage license required, waiting period — presence not required, when — application, contents — license void when — common law of marriages void — lack of authority to perform marriage, effect.
Section 451.080 Recorder to issue license — form of.
Section 451.090 Issuance of license prohibited, when — parental consent, when required — proof of age.
Section 451.100 Marriages solemnized by whom.
Section 451.110 Certificate of marriage to be given.
Section 451.115 Marriages illegally solemnized — penalty.
Section 451.120 Penalty for solemnizing marriage without license, or failing to keep a record thereof.
Section 451.130 Penalty for failure to issue, record or return license.
Section 451.150 Licenses to be recorded — fee.
Section 451.151 Additional fee for issuing marriage license or certified copies — amount to be collected by county recorder, duty to deposit — how.
Section 451.160 Names of children born before marriage shall be recorded.
Section 451.170 Lost record of marriage supplied, how.
Section 451.180 New certificate obtained, how.
Section 451.190 Record supplied by certificate of witnesses, how.
Section 451.200 Certificates and affidavits recorded when records lost or destroyed — fee.
Section 451.210 Rerecording where marriage records are destroyed — fee.
Section 451.220 Marriage contracts to be in writing, acknowledged or proved.
Section 451.230 How acknowledged or proved — to be recorded, where.
Section 451.240 Contract so recorded shall impart notice, to whom.
Section 451.250 Married persons to hold real and personal property as separate property — liable for what.
Section 451.260 Rents of married person's real estate exempt from liability for spouse's debts, when.
Section 451.270 Property of married person exempt from debts of spouse incurred before marriage.
Section 451.290 Wife deemed femme sole, when.
Section 451.300 Conveyance of property when one of the spouses is disabled and under conservatorship or a guardian ad litem is appointed.

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