STATE CODES / MARRIAGE STATUTES BY STATE

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• (a) Parental consent not required if minor was previously married.
• (b) Other statutory requirements apply.
• (c) Younger parties may marry with parental consent.
• (c) (2) Younger parties may marry with parental and judicial consent.
• (d) Waiting period may be avoided
• (e) Younger parties may obtain license in case of pregnancy or birth of child.
• (f) Parties must file notice of intention to marry with local clerk.
• (g) No age limits
• (h) When unmarried man and unmarried woman, not minors, have been living together as man and wife, they may, without health certificate, be married upon issuance of appropriate authorization.
• (i) Veneral disease and rubella (for female)
• (j) Residents, before expiration of 24 hour waiting period; non-residents, before expiration of 96 hour waiting period.
• (k) Parental consent and/or permission of judge required.
• (l) Unless parties are 18 years of age or more, or female is pregnant, or applicants are the parents of a living child born out of wedlock.
• (m) Rubella for female; there are certain exceptions, and district judge may waive medical examination on proof that emergency exists.
• (n) Applicants must recieve information on AIDS and certify having read it.
• (o) Judicial consent may be given when parents refuse to consent.
• (p) Venereal diseases; test for sickle cell anemia given at request of examining physician.
• (q) Any unsterilized female under 50 must submit with application for license a medical report stating whether she had immunological response to rubella, or a written record that the rubella vaccine was administered on or after her first birthday. Judge may by order dispense with these requirements.
• (r) If parties are at least 16 years of age, proof of age and consent of parties in person are required. If a parent is ill an affadavit by the incapacitated parent and a pysician's affadavit required.
• (s) Doctor's certificate must be filed 30 days prior to notice of intention.
• (t) Veneral diseases. In WV and OK, Circuit court judge may waive requirement
• (u) Younger parties may obtain license in special circumstances.
• (v) Below age of consent parties need parental consent and permission of judge, no younger than 14 for males and 13 for females.
• (w) Tests for sickle cell may be required.
• (x) Applicants under age 18 must state that they have had marriage counseling.
• (y) If one or both parties are below the age for marriage wihout parental consent, three day waiting period.
• (z) If a party has no parent residing within state, and one party has residence in state for six months, no permission required.
• (aa) Physical examination and blood test required; offer of HIV counseling required.
• (bb) Unless parties are over 18 years of age.
• (cc) 72 hour waiting period following issuance of license.
• (dd) Authorizes counties to provide for premarital counseling as a requisite to issuance of license to persons under 18 and persons previously divorced.
• (ee) Required offer of HIV test, and/or must be provided with information on AIDS and tests available.
• (ff) No exam required, but parties must file affadavit of non-affiliction with contagious venereal disease.
• (gg) No common-law marriage can be entered into, but these states recgonize common law marriages that were entered into before these dates: Georgia- entered into prior to January 1, 1997 are recognized, Idaho- entered into prior to January 1, 1997 are recognized, and Indiana- entered into prior to January 1, 1958 are recognized.

Source: Based in part on a chart in the World Almanac and Book of Facts, World Almanac Books, 1999. Entries have been updated through a review of the statutes and links added to permit direct consultation of the state statutes.