Code of Alabama - Title 30: Marital and Domestic Relations - Chapter 1 - Marriage

• Section 30-1-3 Issue of incestuous marriages not deemed illegitimate
  Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 30-1-4 Minimum age for contracting marriage
  A person under the age of 16 years is incapable of contracting marriage.
• Section 30-1-5 Consent of parents required for marriage of certain minors
  If a person intending to marry is at least 16 years of age and under 18 years of age and has not had a former...
• Section 30-1-6 Solemnization of marriage of parties under age of consent or within prohibited degrees, etc
  Any person solemnizing the rites of matrimony with the knowledge that either party is under the age of legal consent, or within the degrees prohibited...
• Section 30-1-7 Persons authorized to solemnize marriages
  (a) Generally. Marriages may be solemnized by any licensed minister of the gospel in regular communion with the Christian church or society of which the...
• Section 30-1-8 Fee for performing marriage
  Any person authorized under this chapter to celebrate the rites of matrimony is entitled to $2 for each marriage solemnized.
• Section 30-1-9 Marriage not to be solemnized without license; issuance, effect and duration of license; solemnization of marriage when license void
  Repealed by Act 2019-340, §3, effective August 29, 2019.
• Section 30-1-9.1 Requirements for marriage; validity; construction with other laws
  (a) On August 29, 2019, and thereafter, the only requirement for a marriage in this state shall be for parties who are otherwise legally authorized...
• Section 30-1-10 Penalty for issuance of marriage license to minor contrary to provisions of chapter
  Repealed by Act 2019-340, §3, effective August 29, 2019.
• Section 30-1-11 Penalty for solemnization of marriage without license
  Repealed by Act 2019-340, §3, effective August 29, 2019.
• Section 30-1-12 Judge of probate to maintain register of marriages
  The judge of probate must keep a book, in which shall be registered all marriages filed in the office. The judge of probate shall record,...
• Section 30-1-13 Persons solemnizing marriages to execute certificate; recordation thereof; marriage certificate deemed presumptive evidence of fact
  Repealed by Act 2019-340, §3, effective August 29, 2019.
• Section 30-1-14 Failure of minister, etc., to return marriage certificate to probate judge
  Repealed by Act 2019-340, §3, effective August 29, 2019.
• Section 30-1-16 Correction of vital error in marriage records
  In all marriages where a vital records error has been made, the parties to the marriage may file amended affidavits, forms, and data with the...
• Section 30-1-17 Correction of marriage records
  (a) When the records pertaining to a marriage are incomplete or inaccurate, the judge of probate of a county in which the marriage license was...
• Section 30-1-18 Probate judge to notify district attorney of offenses under chapter
  It is the duty of the judge of probate to give notice to the district attorney of all offenses under this chapter.
• Section 30-1-19 Marriage, recognition thereof, between persons of the same sex prohibited
  (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the "Alabama Marriage Protection Act." (b) Marriage is inherently a unique relationship between a...
• Section 30-1-20 Common-law marriage abolished
  (a) No common-law marriage may be entered into in this state on or after January 1, 2017. (b) An otherwise valid common-law marriage entered into...

Last modified: May 3, 2021