2009 Hawaii Code
Volume 12
TITLE 31 - FAMILY
CHAPTER 572 - MARRIAGE
§572-3 - Contracted without the State.

     §572-3  Contracted without the State.  Marriages between a man and a woman legal in the country where contracted shall be held legal in the courts of this State. [CC 1859, §1290; RL 1925, §2945; RL 1935, §4632; RL 1945, §12353; RL 1955, §323-3; HRS §572-3; am L 1994, c 217, §4]

 

Rules of Court

 

  Determination of foreign law, see HFCR rule 44.1.

  Proof of official record, see HFCR rule 44.

 

Case Notes

 

  If legal where entered into, legal everywhere unless odious by common consent of civilized nations.  3 H. 489; 12 H. 329.

  Presumption of validity.  29 H. 716.

  Mexican proxy marriage.  47 H. 345, 388 P.2d 846.

 

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