Section 10-A – Parties to a marriage

1. A marriage that is otherwise valid shall be valid regardless of whether the parties to the marriage are of the same or different sex.2. No government treatment or legal status, effect, right, benefit, privilege, protection or responsibility relating to marriage,...

Section 7 – Voidable marriages

A marriage is void from the time its nullity is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction if either party thereto:1. Is under the age of legal consent, which is eighteen years, provided that such nonage shall not of itself constitute an absolute right to the...

Section 6 – Void marriages

A marriage is absolutely void if contracted by a person whose husband or wife by a former marriage is living, unless either:1. Such former marriage has been annulled or has been dissolved for a cause other than the adultery of such person; provided, that if such...

Section 5 – Incestuous and void marriages

A marriage is incestuous and void whether the relatives are legitimate or illegitimate between either:1. An ancestor and a descendant;2. A brother and sister of either the whole or the half blood;3. An uncle and niece or an aunt and nephew. If a marriage prohibited by...