Marriage
28 laws
Missouri marriage laws cover marriage licenses, age requirements, waiting periods, and who may legally marry. These statutes apply to couples marrying in the state.
Marriage a civil contract
RSMo 451.010
Certain marriages prohibited
RSMo 451.020
Public policy, same sex marriages prohibited
RSMo 451.022
Bigamous marriage void
RSMo 451.030
Marriage license required, waiting period
RSMo 451.040
Recorder to issue license
RSMo 451.080
Issuance of license prohibited, when
RSMo 451.090
Marriages solemnized by whom
RSMo 451.100
Certificate of marriage to be given
RSMo 451.110
Marriages illegally solemnized
RSMo 451.115
Penalty for solemnizing marriage without license, or failing to keep a record thereof
RSMo 451.120
Penalty for failure to issue, record or return license
RSMo 451.130
Licenses to be recorded
RSMo 451.150
Additional fee for issuing marriage license or certified copies
RSMo 451.151
Names of children born before marriage shall be recorded
RSMo 451.160
Lost record of marriage supplied, how
RSMo 451.170
New certificate obtained, how
RSMo 451.180
Record supplied by certificate of witnesses, how
RSMo 451.190
Certificates and affidavits recorded when records lost or destroyed
RSMo 451.200
Rerecording where marriage records are destroyed
RSMo 451.210
Marriage contracts to be in writing, acknowledged or proved
RSMo 451.220
How acknowledged or proved
RSMo 451.230
Contract so recorded shall impart notice, to whom
RSMo 451.240
Married persons to hold real and personal property as separate property
RSMo 451.250
Rents of married person's real estate exempt from liability for spouse's debts, when
RSMo 451.260
Property of married person exempt from debts of spouse incurred before marriage
RSMo 451.270
Wife deemed femme sole, when
RSMo 451.290
Conveyance of property when one of the spouses is disabled and under conservatorship or a guardian ad litem is appointed
RSMo 451.300