(a) A marriage is prohibited and void from the beginning, without being so decreed and its nullity may be shown in any collateral proceeding, when it is between— (1) a man and his grandmother, grandfather’s wife, wife’s grandmother, father’s sister, mother’s sister, mother, stepmother, wife’s mother, daughter, wife’s daughter, son’s wife, sister, son’s daughter, daughter’s […]
A marriage is illegal and shall be void from the time its nullity is declared by decree, if either party thereto— (1) is an idiot or a person adjudged a lunatic; (2) has consented thereto by reason of fraud or force; (3) is incapable, from physical causes, of entering into the marriage itself; or (4) […]
(a) A proceeding to declare the nullity of a marriage may be instituted in the case of— (1) an infant under the age of consent by such infant, through a next friend, or by the parents or guardian of such infant; or (2) an idiot or lunatic by next friend. (b) No proceeding to declare […]
If any marriage declared illegal by sections 1 and 2 of this title is entered into in another jurisdiction by persons having and retaining their domicile in the Virgin Islands, such marriage shall be deemed illegal, and may be decreed void in the same manner as if it had been celebrated within the Virgin Islands.
