Legal Research Home > New Jersey Lawyer > Marriages and Married Persons > New Jersey Marriages And Married Persons Laws Section 37:1-16. Interrogation of applicants under oath; perjury.

Any person authorized to solemnize marriages may administer oaths to the parties applying to be married, and may require them, or either of them, to make true answers to any inquiries made by him in order to ascertain whether, in his judgment, any legal impediment to the proposed marriage exists.

Any person who willfully makes false answers to any such inquiries shall, if the answers are reduced to writing, signed by the party making the same and attached to the certificate of marriage, be deemed guilty of perjury.

Last modified: October 22, 2006