Kentucky Marriage Laws | § 402.020

Kentucky Revised Statutes 402.020

Other prohibited marriages

(1) Marriage is prohibited and void:

(a) With a person who has been adjudged mentally disabled by a court of competent jurisdiction;

(b) Where there is a husband or wife living, from whom the person marrying has not been divorced;

(c) When not solemnized or contracted in the presence of an authorized person or society;

(d) Between members of the same sex;

(e) Between more than two (2) persons; and

(f) Except as provided in KRS 402.210, with a person who at the time of marriage is under eighteen (18) years of age.

(2) Subsection (1)(f) of this section shall not apply to a lawful marriage entered into in the Commonwealth of Kentucky prior to July 14, 2018, or to a lawful marriage in another state or country prior to the parties' residence in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

History: Amended 2018 Ky. Acts ch. 36, sec. 1, effective July 14, 2018. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 122, sec. 1, effective March 26, 1998 and ch. 258, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 212, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1988. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 141, sec. 113, effective July 1, 1982. -- Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 92, sec. 12, effective June 17, 1978. -- Amended 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 399, effective January 2, 1978. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 49, sec. 6; and ch. 386, sec. 90. -- Amended 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 200, sec. 10. -- Amended 1966 Ky. Acts ch. 72, sec. 1. -- Amended 1960 Ky. Acts ch. 8, sec. 1. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2097.

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