§ 9-11-101. Marriage a civil contract — Consent of parties
Marriage is considered in law a civil contract to which the consent of the parties capable in law of contracting is necessary.
§ 9-11-102. Minimum age — Parental consent — Definition
(a) Every male who has arrived at the full age of seventeen (17) years and every female who has arrived at the full age of seventeen (17) years shall be capable in law of contracting marriage. (b) (1) (A) However, males and females under the age of eighteen (18) years shall furnish the clerk, before […]
§ 9-11-103. Minimum age — Exception
(a) (1) If an application for a marriage license is made where one (1) or both parties are under eighteen (18) years of age but older than sixteen (16) years of age and the female is pregnant, both parties may appear before a judge of the circuit court of the district where the application for […]
§ 9-11-104. Minimum age — Lack of parental consent or misrepresentation of age — Annulment
In all cases in which the consent of the parent or parents or guardian is not provided, or there has been a misrepresentation of age by a contracting party, the marriage contract may be set aside and annulled upon the application of the parent or parents or guardian to the circuit court having jurisdiction of […]
§ 9-11-105. Marriage of underage parties voidable
(a) The marriage of any male under the full age of seventeen (17) years and the marriage of any female under the full age of sixteen (16) years is voidable. (b) All marriages contracted prior to March 26, 1964, where one (1) or both parties to the contract were under the minimum age prescribed by […]
§ 9-11-106. Incestuous marriages — Penalties for entering into or solemnizing
(a) All marriages between parents and children, including grandparents and grandchildren of every degree, between brothers and sisters of the half as well as the whole blood, and between uncles and nieces, and between aunts and nephews, and between first cousins are declared to be incestuous and absolutely void. This section shall extend to illegitimate […]
§ 9-11-107. Validity of foreign marriages
(a) All marriages contracted outside this state that would be valid by the laws of the state or country in which the marriages were consummated and in which the parties then actually resided shall be valid in all the courts in this state. (b) This section shall not apply to a marriage between persons of […]
§ 9-11-108. Presumption of spouse’s death — Validity of subsequent marriage
In all cases in which any husband abandons his wife, or a wife her husband, and resides beyond the limits of this state for the term of five (5) successive years, without being known to the other spouse to be living during that time, the abandoning party’s death shall be presumed. Any subsequent marriage entered […]
§ 9-11-109. Validity of same-sex marriages
Marriage shall be only between a man and a woman. A marriage between persons of the same sex is void.