General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 207 Marriage
- Massachusetts General Laws - Marriage of man to certain relatives - Chapter 207, Section 1
No man shall marry his mother, grandmother, daughter, granddaughter, sister, stepmother, grandfather’s wife, grandson’s wife, wife’s mother, wife’s grandmother, wife’s daughter, wife’s granddaughter, brother’s daughter,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Marriage of woman to certain relatives - Chapter 207, Section 2
No woman shall marry her father, grandfather, son, grandson, brother, stepfather, grandmother’s husband, daughter’s husband, granddaughter’s husband, husband’s grandfather, husband’s son, husband’s grandson, brother’s son,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application of Secs. 1 and 2 - Chapter 207, Section 3
The prohibition of the two preceding sections shall continue notwithstanding the dissolution, by death or divorce, of the marriage by which the affinity was created,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Polygamy - Chapter 207, Section 4
A marriage contracted while either party thereto has a former wife or husband living, except as provided in section six and in chapter two hundred...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1986, 599, Sec. 52 - Chapter 207, Section 5
Repealed, 1986, 599, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Marriage during existence of former marriage; validity - Chapter 207, Section 6
If a person, during the lifetime of a husband or wife with whom the marriage is in force, enters into a subsequent marriage contract with...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Minors; solemnization of marriage - Chapter 207, Section 7
A magistrate or minister shall not solemnize a marriage if he has reasonable cause to believe that a party to the intended marriage is under...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Marriages void without judgment - Chapter 207, Section 8
A marriage solemnized within the commonwealth which is prohibited by reason of consanguinity or affinity between the parties, or of either of them having a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1977, 581, Sec. 1 - Chapter 207, Section 9
Repealed, 1977, 581, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Foreign marriages; validity - Chapter 207, Section 10
If any person residing and intending to continue to reside in this commonwealth is disabled or prohibited from contracting marriage under the laws of this...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2008, 216, Sec. 1 - Chapter 207, Section 11 to 13
Repealed, 2008, 216, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Determination of validity - Chapter 207, Section 14
If the validity of a marriage is doubted, either party may institute an action for annulling such marriage, or if it is denied or doubted...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Issue of certain void marriages - Chapter 207, Section 15
The issue of a marriage declared void by reason of consanguinity or affinity between the parties shall be a person born out of wedlock.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Issue of marriage void by reason of nonage or insanity - Chapter 207, Section 16
The issue of a marriage declared void by reason of nonage, insanity or idiocy of either party shall be the legitimate issue of the parent...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Issue of marriage void by reason of prior marriage - Chapter 207, Section 17
If a marriage is declared void by reason of a prior marriage of either party and the court finds that the second marriage was contracted...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Care and maintenance of children; power of court - Chapter 207, Section 18
Upon or after a judgment of nullity, the court shall have like power to make orders relative to the care, custody and maintenance of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Situs; time; fees - Chapter 207, Section 19
Persons intending to be joined in marriage in the commonwealth shall, not less than three days before their marriage, jointly cause notice of their intention...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Written notice; oath - Chapter 207, Section 20
The clerk shall require written notice of intention of marriage, on forms furnished by the state registrar of vital records and statistics, containing such information...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1981, 684, Sec. 14 - Chapter 207, Section 20A
Repealed, 1981, 684, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1943, 561, Sec. 2 - Chapter 207, Section 20B
Repealed, 1943, 561, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1979, 376 - Chapter 207, Section 21 22
Repealed, 1979,
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice; time and situs of receiving - Chapter 207, Section 23
The clerk or registrar need not receive notices of intention of marriage on Sunday or a legal holiday, nor at any place except his office.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Nonage minors; receiving of notice; prohibition - Chapter 207, Section 24
The clerk or registrar shall not, except as provided in the following section, receive a notice of the intention of marriage of a person under
- Massachusetts General Laws - Nonage minors; authorization of marriage - Chapter 207, Section 25
The probate court for the county where, or a district court within the judicial district of which, a minor under the age specified in the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice without consent; liability; cancellation - Chapter 207, Section 26
Whoever, without the consent of both parties to an intended marriage, gives the notice of their intention of marriage required by law shall be liable...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Adopted persons - Chapter 207, Section 27
A party to an intended marriage who has been legally adopted shall, in the notice of intention thereof, give the names of his parents by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of intention of marriage; delivery; time - Chapter 207, Section 28
On or after the third day from the filing of notice of intention of marriage, except as otherwise provided, but not in any event later...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2004, 388 - Chapter 207, Section 28A
Repealed, 2004,
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of intention of marriage; issuance to immigrants - Chapter 207, Section 29
If either of the parties to an intended marriage has arrived as an immigrant from a foreign country within five days, the notice of intention...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of intention of marriage; dispensing with three days’ notice - Chapter 207, Section 30
Upon application by both of the parties to an intended marriage, when both parties are residents of the commonwealth or both parties are non-residents, or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of intention of marriage; prohibition of alteration - Chapter 207, Section 31
No alteration or erasure shall be made by any person on the certificate under section twenty-eight until it has been returned to the clerk or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1981, 684, Sec. 15 - Chapter 207, Section 32
Repealed, 1981, 684, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1981, 684, Sec. 16 - Chapter 207, Section 33
Repealed, 1981, 684, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Proof of age - Chapter 207, Section 33A
If it appears from the statements made in the written notice of intention of marriage that a party to such intended marriage is under eighteen,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Minors residing in different towns; duplicate copies of notice of intention; fees - Chapter 207, Section 34
If it is necessary to give notice in two towns of the intention of marriage of a minor, the clerk or registrar who first takes...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Refusal of certificate - Chapter 207, Section 35
The clerk or registrar may refuse to issue a certificate if he has reasonable cause to believe that any of the statements contained in the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Marriages without commonwealth by citizens; filing of certificate - Chapter 207, Section 36
Any resident of this commonwealth who marries outside the commonwealth and thereafter resides within the United States or any of its territories or possessions, or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Impediments to marriage; list; posting - Chapter 207, Section 37
The commissioner of public health shall furnish to the clerk or registrar of every town a printed list of all legal impediments to marriage, and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Situs; persons authorized - Chapter 207, Section 38
A marriage may be solemnized in any place within the commonwealth by the following persons who are residents of the commonwealth: a duly ordained minister...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Justice or non-resident clergymen - Chapter 207, Section 39
The governor may in his discretion designate a justice of the peace in each town and such further number, not exceeding one for every five...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Records of marriages; keeping; returns - Chapter 207, Section 40
Every justice of the peace, minister of the gospel, minister of the Unitarian Universalist Association, rabbi, secretary of a Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is, leader...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Imperfect certificates of marriage; correction - Chapter 207, Section 41
If a certificate of marriage is found, upon its return to the clerk or registrar, to have been incorrectly filled out by the person who...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Irregular solemnization; validity of marriage - Chapter 207, Section 42
A marriage solemnized by a person professing to have the authority to solemnize marriages under section thirty-eight or thirty-nine shall not be void, nor shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Marriage by consul - Chapter 207, Section 43
Marriages solemnized in a foreign country by a consul or diplomatic agent of the United States shall be valid in this commonwealth.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fees - Chapter 207, Section 44
A city by ordinance and a town by vote may authorize its clerk or registrar to pay on demand, in his office, twenty-five cents to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Record - Chapter 207, Section 45
The record of a marriage made and kept as provided by law by the person by whom the marriage was solemnized, or by the clerk...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of consul - Chapter 207, Section 46
A copy of the record of a marriage solemnized by a consul or diplomatic agent of the United States or a certificate from such consul...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Admissions; repute; cohabitation - Chapter 207, Section 47
Marriage may be proved by evidence of an admission thereof by an adverse party, by evidence of general repute or of cohabitation of the parties...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Abolition of right - Chapter 207, Section 47A
Breach of contract to marry shall not constitute an injury or wrong recognized by law, and no action, suit or proceeding shall be maintained therefor.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Alienation of affection and criminal conversation not actionable - Chapter 207, Section 47B
Alienation of affection and criminal conversation shall not constitute an injury or wrong recognized by law, and no action, suit or proceeding shall be maintained
- Massachusetts General Laws - Solemnization of marriage without authority - Chapter 207, Section 48
Whoever, not being duly authorized by the laws of the commonwealth, undertakes to join persons in marriage therein shall be punished by a fine of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Joining persons in marriage without certificate - Chapter 207, Section 49
Whoever, being duly authorized to solemnize marriages in the commonwealth, joins in marriage persons who have not complied with the laws relative to procuring certificates...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2008, 216, Sec. 2 - Chapter 207, Section 50
Repealed, 2008, 216, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of certain provisions of this chapter - Chapter 207, Section 51
Violations of any provision of section seven, twenty-six or thirty-four, shall, upon complaint made within one year thereafter, be punished by a fine of not...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of law concerning making notice of intention; false statements - Chapter 207, Section 52
Whoever violates any provision of section twenty, and whoever falsely swears or affirms in making any statement required under section twenty, shall be punished by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of intention of marriage; issuance to nonage persons - Chapter 207, Section 53
A clerk or registrar issuing a certificate of intention of marriage contrary to section thirty-three shall forfeit not more than one hundred dollars.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of intention of marriage; illegal alteration - Chapter 207, Section 54
Whoever makes an illegal alteration or erasure on a certificate of intention of marriage shall be punished by a fine of not more than one...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1946, 273, Sec. 2 - Chapter 207, Section 55
Repealed, 1946, 273, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Records and returns of marriages; failure to make - Chapter 207, Section 56
Whoever neglects to make the record and returns required by section forty shall forfeit not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of intention of marriage; failure to return - Chapter 207, Section 57
Whoever performs a ceremony of marriage upon a certificate more than sixty days after the filing of the notice of intention of marriage as set...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Advertising to perform marriage ceremony; business cards - Chapter 207, Section 58
A justice of the peace or other person authorized to solemnize marriages may advertise his name or any trade name, business address, telephone number, rate...
Last modified: September 11, 2015