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2012 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 20 - Domestic Relations
Chapter 1 - MARRIAGE
Section 20-1-100 - Minimum ages for valid marriage.


SC Code § 20-1-100 (2012) What's This?

Any person under the age of sixteen is not capable of entering into a valid marriage, and all marriages hereinafter entered into by such persons are void ab initio. A common-law marriage hereinafter entered into by a person under the age of sixteen is void ab initio.

HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 95, Section 1, eff June 11, 1997; 2000 Act No. 397, Section 1, eff August 17, 2000.

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