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RSMo 451.230effective 28 Aug 1939

How acknowledged or proved

In plain English

A marriage contract has to be signed and confirmed the same way a land deed is confirmed by law. Then it gets filed with the county recorder in every county where any property involved in the contract is located.

Word-for-word law

451.230. How or proved — to be , where. — Such marriage contracts shall be acknowledged or proved before the same officer and in the same manner as for land are or shall be required by law to be acknowledged or proved and certified; and they shall be recorded, with the of or , in the office of the of each county where any is situated which is intended to be conveyed or affected thereby.

(RSMo 1939 § 3374)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 2987; 1919 § 7312; 1909 § 8293

Marriage contracts to be received in evidence, when, 490.590

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