California Family Code PART 1 - VALIDITY OF MARRIAGE

• Section 300.
  (a) Marriage is a personal relation arising out of a civil contract between two persons, to which the consent of the parties capable of making that...
• Section 301.
  Two unmarried persons 18 years of age or older, who are not otherwise disqualified, are capable of consenting to and consummating marriage.(Amended by Stats. 2014,...
• Section 302.
  (a) An unmarried person under 18 years of age is capable of consenting to and consummating marriage upon obtaining a court order granting permission to the...
• Section 303.
  If it appears to the satisfaction of the court by application of a minor that the minor requires a written consent to marry and that...
• Section 304.
  As part of the court order granting permission to marry under Section 302 or 303, the court shall, if it considers it necessary, require the...
• Section 305.
  Consent to and solemnization of marriage may be proved under the same general rules of evidence as facts are proved in other cases.(Enacted by Stats....
• Section 306.
  Except as provided in Section 307, a marriage shall be licensed, solemnized, and authenticated, and the authenticated marriage license shall be returned to the county...
• Section 306.5.
  (a) Parties to a marriage shall not be required to have the same name. Neither party shall be required to change his or her name. A...
• Section 307.
  This division, so far as it relates to the solemnizing of marriage, is not applicable to members of a particular religious society or denomination not...
• Section 308.
  A marriage contracted outside this state that would be valid by laws of the jurisdiction in which the marriage was contracted is valid in California.(Amended...
• Section 309.
  If either party to a marriage denies the marriage, or refuses to join in a declaration of the marriage, the other party may proceed, by...
• Section 310.
  Marriage is dissolved only by one of the following:(a) The death of one of the parties.(b) A judgment of dissolution of marriage.(c) A judgment of nullity of marriage.(Enacted...

Last modified: October 22, 2018