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2016 District of Columbia Code
Title 16 - Particular Actions, Proceedings and Matters. §§ 16-101 - 16-5505
Chapter 9 - Divorce, Annulment, Separation, Support, Etc. §§ 16-901 - 16-925
§ 16–922. Validity of marriages and divorces solemnized or pronounced before January 1, 1902.
DC Code § 16–922 (2016) What's This?
This chapter does not invalidate any marriage solemnized according to law before January 1, 1902, or any decree or judgment of divorce pronounced before that date.
(Dec. 23, 1963, 77 Stat. 563, Pub. L. 88-241, § 1.)
Prior Codifications1981 Ed., § 16-922.
1973 Ed., § 16-922.
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