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2005 Missouri Revised Statutes - Chapter 451 — Marriage, Marriage Contracts, and Rights of Married Women
- § 451.010. — Marriage a civil contract.
- § 451.020. — Certain marriages prohibited--official issuing licenses to certain persons guilty of misdemeanor.
- § 451.022. — Public policy, same sex marriages prohibited--license may not be issued.
- § 451.030. — Bigamous marriage void.
- § 451.040. — Marriage license required, waiting period--application, contents --license void when--common law of marriages void--lack of authority to perform marriage, effect.
- § 451.080. — Recorder to issue license--form of.
- § 451.090. — Issuance of license prohibited, when--parental consent, when required.
- § 451.100. — Marriages solemnized by whom.
- § 451.110. — Certificate of marriage to be given.
- § 451.115. — Marriages illegally solemnized--penalty.
- § 451.120. — Penalty for solemnizing marriage without license, or failing to keep a record thereof.
- § 451.130. — Penalty for failure to issue, record or return license.
- § 451.150. — Licenses to be recorded--fee.
- § 451.151. — Additional fee for issuing marriage license or certified copies --amount to be collected by county recorder, duty to deposit--how.
- § 451.160. — Names of children born before marriage shall be recorded.
- § 451.170. — Lost record of marriage supplied, how.
- § 451.180. — New certificate obtained, how.
- § 451.190. — Record supplied by certificate of witnesses, how.
- § 451.200. — Certificates and affidavits recorded when records lost or destroyed --fee.
- § 451.210. — Rerecording where marriage records are destroyed--fee.
- § 451.220. — Marriage contracts to be in writing, acknowledged or proved.
- § 451.230. — How acknowledged or proved--to be recorded, where.
- § 451.240. — Contract so recorded shall impart notice, to whom.
- § 451.250. — Married persons to hold real and personal property as separate property--liable for what.
- § 451.260. — Rents of married person's real estate exempt from liability for spouse's debts, when.
- § 451.270. — Property of married person exempt from debts of spouse incurred before marriage.
- § 451.280. — (Repealed L. 2001 H.B. 537 § A)
- § 451.290. — Wife deemed femme sole, when.
- § 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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