Section 6.203 – Certain Void Marriages Validated

May 14, 2021 | Family Law, Texas

Except for a marriage that would have been void under Section 6.201, a marriage that was entered into before January 1, 1970, in violation of the prohibitions of Article 496, Penal Code of Texas, 1925, is validated from the date the marriage commenced if the parties continued until January 1, 1970, to live together as husband and wife and to represent themselves to others as being married.

Tex. Fam. Code ยง 6.203

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 7, Sec. 1, eff. April 17, 1997.