Georgia Code, Title 19, Chapter 3, Article 1 - General Provisions

• § 19-3-1 - Prerequisites to Valid Marriage
  To constitute a valid marriage in this state there must be: (1) Parties able to contract; (2) An actual contract; and (3) Consummation according...
• § 19-3-1.1 - Common-Law Marriage; Effectiveness
  No common-law marriage shall be entered into in this state on or after January 1, 1997. Otherwise valid common-law marriages entered into prior to...
• § 19-3-2 - Who May Contract Marriage; Parental Consent
  (a) To be able to contract marriage, a person must: (1) Be of sound mind; (2) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this...
• § 19-3-3 - Degrees of Relationship Within Which Intermarriage Prohibited; Penalty; Effect of Prohibited Marriage
  (a) Any person who marries a person to whom he knows he is related, either by blood or by marriage, as follows: (1) Father...
• § 19-3-3.1 - Marriages Between Persons of Same Sex Prohibited; Marriages Not Recognized
  (a) It is declared to be the public policy of this state to recognize the union only of man and woman. Marriages between persons...
• § 19-3-4 - Nature of Consent Required
  To constitute an actual contract of marriage, the parties must consent thereto voluntarily without any fraud practiced upon either. Drunkenness at the time of...
• § 19-3-5 - What Marriages Void; Legitimacy of Issue; Effect of Later Ratification
  (a) Marriages of persons unable to contract, unwilling to contract, or fraudulently induced to contract shall be void. However, the issue of such a...
• § 19-3-6 - Effect of Restraints on Marriage; When Valid
  Marriage is encouraged by the law. Every effort to restrain or discourage marriage by contract, condition, limitation, or otherwise shall be invalid and void,...
• § 19-3-7 - Contracts Attempting to Force Marriage Void
  The policy of the law being opposed equally to restrictions on marriage and to marriages not the result of free choice, all contracts or...
• § 19-3-8 - Interspousal Tort Immunity Continued
  Interspousal tort immunity, as it existed immediately prior to July 1, 1983, shall continue to exist on and after July 1, 1983.
• § 19-3-9 - Each Spouse's Property Separate
  The separate property of each spouse shall remain the separate property of that spouse, except as provided in Chapters 5 and 6 of this...
• § 19-3-10 - Right of Married Persons to Contract; Presumptions
  A married person may make contracts with other persons; but, when a transaction between a husband and wife is attacked for fraud by the...
• § 19-3-11 - Gift From Spouse Allowed, But Not Presumed
  Repealed by Ga. L. 1981, p. 704, § 1, effective July 1, 1981.

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