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2011 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE XXX DOMESTIC RELATIONS
Chapter 451 Marriage, Marriage Contracts, and Rights of Married Women
- Section 451.010. Marriage a civil contract.
- Section 451.020. Certain marriages prohibited--official issuing licenses to certain persons guilty of misdemeanor.
- Section 451.022. Public policy, same sex marriages prohibited--license may not be issued.
- Section 451.030. Bigamous marriage void.
- Section 451.040. Marriage license required, waiting period--application, contents--license void when--common law of marriages void--lack of authority to perform marriage, effect.
- Section 451.080. Recorder to issue license--form of.
- Section 451.090. Issuance of license prohibited, when--parental consent, when required.
- Section 451.100. Marriages solemnized by whom.
- Section 451.110. Certificate of marriage to be given.
- Section 451.115. Marriages illegally solemnized--penalty.
- Section 451.120. Penalty for solemnizing marriage without license, or failing to keep a record thereof.
- Section 451.130. Penalty for failure to issue, record or return license.
- Section 451.150. Licenses to be recorded--fee.
- Section 451.151. Additional fee for issuing marriage license or certified copies--amount to be collected by county recorder, duty to deposit--how.
- Section 451.160. Names of children born before marriage shall be recorded.
- Section 451.170. Lost record of marriage supplied, how.
- Section 451.180. New certificate obtained, how.
- Section 451.190. Record supplied by certificate of witnesses, how.
- Section 451.200. Certificates and affidavits recorded when records lost or destroyed--fee.
- Section 451.210. Rerecording where marriage records are destroyed--fee.
- Section 451.220. Marriage contracts to be in writing, acknowledged or proved.
- Section 451.230. How acknowledged or proved--to be recorded, where.
- Section 451.240. Contract so recorded shall impart notice, to whom.
- Section 451.250. Married persons to hold real and personal property as separate property--liable for what.
- Section 451.260. Rents of married person's real estate exempt from liability for spouse's debts, when.
- Section 451.270. Property of married person exempt from debts of spouse incurred before marriage.
- Section 451.280. (Repealed L. 2001 H.B. 537 A)
- Section 451.290. Wife deemed femme sole, when.
- Section 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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