Code of Virginia - Title 20 Domestic Relations - Chapter 2 Marriage Generally
- 20-13 License and solemnization required
Every marriage in this Commonwealth shall be under a license and solemnized in the manner herein provided. (Code 1919, § 5071.) ...
- 20-13.1 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 1995, c. 355, cl. 2. ...
- 20-14 By whom license to be issued
Every license for a marriage shall be issued by the clerk or deputy clerk of a circuit court of any county or city. If from ...
- 20-14.1 Duration of license; issuance of additional licenses
Every marriage license issued under § 20-14 shall constitute authority for a period of only sixty days from the date of issuance for the solemnization ...
- 20-14.2 Health information to be furnished to applicants for license
Every person who is empowered to issue a marriage license shall, at the time of issuance thereof, distribute the following to the applicants for the ...
- 20-15 Tax on license
On each marriage license issued under § 20-14 there is hereby levied a license tax of $20, which tax shall be collected by the clerk ...
- 20-16 Oath of parties before clerk and issuance of certificates thereof
The clerk issuing any marriage license shall before issuing the license require the parties contemplating marriage to state, under oath, or by affidavit or affidavits ...
- 20-16.1 Clerk authorized to amend marriage records
The clerk (i) may, on his own authority, correct marriage records established in his office by amending the same upon application under oath and submission ...
- 20-17 through 20-19
Repealed by Acts 1968, c. 318. ...
- 20-20 Clerk to file license and certificate; indexing names of parties; certified copies as evidenc...
The clerk to whom the license and certificate are returned, shall file and preserve the original in his office, and make an index of the ...
- 20-21 Clerk to furnish attorney for the Commonwealth list of licenses not returned by minister
It shall be the duty of every clerk issuing marriage licenses no later than March 31 of each year to furnish to the attorney for ...
- 20-22 Attorney for the Commonwealth to ascertain before circuit court name of minister failing to return ...
It shall be the duty of the attorney for the Commonwealth for each county and city, upon the receipt from the clerk of the list ...
- 20-23 Order authorizing ministers to perform ceremony
When a minister of any religious denomination shall produce before the circuit court of any county or city in this Commonwealth, or before the judge ...
- 20-24 Penalty for failure to certify record of marriage
If any minister, authorized to celebrate rites of marriage under § 20-23, shall fail to comply with § 32.1-267, he shall be subject to forfeit ...
- 20-25 Persons other than ministers who may perform rites
Any circuit court judge may issue an order authorizing one or more persons, resident in the circuit in which the judge sits, to celebrate the ...
- 20-26 Marriage between members of religious society having no minister
Marriages between persons belonging to any religious society which has no ordained minister, may be solemnized by the persons and in the manner prescribed by ...
- 20-27 Fee for celebrating marriage
Any person authorized under § 20-25 to celebrate the rites of marriage shall be permitted to charge the parties a fee for the ceremony not ...
- 20-28 Penalty for celebrating marriage without license
If any person knowingly perform the ceremony of marriage without lawful license, or officiate in celebrating the rites of marriage without being authorized by law ...
- 20-29 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 1975, c. 644. ...
- 20-30 Licenses of persons on federal reservations
The clerks of the circuit courts of any counties or their deputies and the clerks of the circuit courts of any cities or their deputies ...
- 20-31 Belief of parties in lawful marriage validates certain defects
No marriage solemnized under a license issued in this Commonwealth by any person professing to be authorized to solemnize the same shall be deemed or ...
- 20-31.1 When marriage legitimates children; issue of marriages prohibited by law, etc., legitimat...
If a person, having had a child, shall afterwards intermarry with the mother or father, such child if recognized by both of them, as their ...
- 20-32 Penalty on clerks for neglect of duty
If any clerk of a court or county clerk fail to perform any duty required of him under this chapter, he shall forfeit ten dollars ...
- 20-33 Penalty for clerk issuing license contrary to law
If any clerk of a court knowingly issue a marriage license contrary to law, he shall be confined in jail not exceeding one year, and ...
- 20-34 through 20-36
Repealed by Acts 1968, c. 318. ...
- 20-37 Validation of certain marriages when license issued by clerk of county court
All marriages of females residing within jurisdiction of a corporation court, which were solemnized prior to February 1, 1904, by virtue of a license issued ...
- 20-37.1 Validation of certain marriages solemnized outside of Commonwealth
All marriages heretofore solemnized outside this Commonwealth by a minister authorized to celebrate the rites of marriage in this Commonwealth, under a license issued in ...
- 20-37.2 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 1977, c. 624. ...
Last modified: April 3, 2009