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IND - Indian
Article 2 - (2 - 19) General Provisions
3 - Marriage and divorce.
Universal Citation:
NY Indian L ยง 3 (2012)
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§ 3. Marriage and divorce. The laws of the state relating to the
capacity to contract marriage, the solemnization of marriage, the
annulment of the marriage contract, and divorce, are applicable to
Indians; and subject to the jurisdiction of the peacemakers' courts of
the Seneca nation to grant divorces, the same courts shall have
jurisdiction of actions arising thereunder. But Indians who have
heretofore contract marriage according to the Indian custom or usage,
and shall cohabit as husband and wife, shall be deemed lawfully married.
Indian marriages may be solemnized by peacemakers within their
jurisdiction with the same force and effect as by a justice of the
peace.
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