Michigan Marriage Laws § 551.2

Michigan Compiled Laws 551.2

Marriage as civil contract; consent; license; solemnization

More Michigan Marriage Laws

• § 551.7 Persons authorized to solemnize marriage; records; return of licenses and certificates; disposition of fees charged by mayor or county clerk
• § 551.202 Application for marriage license; form; fee; performing marriage ceremony; permit; record; marriage certificate; execution of papers in duplicate; delivery of marriage certificate to parties
• § 551.9 Solemnization of marriage; form; declaration by parties; witnesses
• § 551.16 Want of jurisdiction or authority to solemnize marriage; affect on marriage
• § 551.101 Marriage license; requirements; place to obtain, delivery to person officiating
• § 551.110 License, certificate or certified copy record as evidence
• § 551.103 Persons capable of contracting marriage; age requirement; proof of age; filling out license; written consent; compliance; filing consent; signing, certification, and copy of license; fee; allocation for family counseling services; return and disposition of unexpended funds; waiver of fee; additional fee for nonresidents; delivery of license and certificate to officiating individual; recording information; forwarding licenses and certificates to state registrar; imposition of fee by certain charter counties
• § 551.201 Issuance of marriage license without publicity; conditions; application; notice; consent; exceptions; order
• § 551.271 Marriages solemnized in another state validated
• § 551.251 Legal marriage of minor; parental and marital rights and duties; guardian ad litem.
• § 551.1 Marriage between individuals of same sex as invalid contract
• § 551.3 Incapacity; persons man prohibited from marrying
• § 551.2 Marriage as civil contract; consent; license; solemnization
• § 551.4 Incapacity; persons woman prohibited from marrying
• § 551.5 Bigamy prohibited
• § 551.14 Unlawful marriage by person authorized to solemnize marriage; penalty
• § 551.15 Ceremony performance with knowledge of lack of authority or legal impediment; penalty
• § 551.17 Denominational modes of solemnization; effect of chapter
• § 551.18 Certificates and records of marriage as evidence
• § 551.109 Filing reports of marriage; record
• § 551.51 Age of consent
• § 551.102 Blank form for marriage license and certificate; preparation, contents, and distribution; furnishing blank forms of affidavit of competency; filing affidavit; electronic filing; license as matter of record; transmission to department of community health; social security number; application exempt from disclosure.
• § 551.103a Marriage license; time of delivery; solemnization of marriage required
• § 551.104 Certificate completion; officiating person duty; original license return; record
• § 551.105 County clerk; violation of act, misdemeanor, penalty
• § 551.106 Person officiating at marriage; violation of act, misdemeanor, penalty
• § 551.107 Failure to return certificate; misdemeanor, penalty
• § 551.108 Marriage license; false statement in application, perjury
• § 551.111 License or certificate errors; evidence, correction
• § 551.203 Private file of papers; forwarding duplicate to state registrar; recordation of filing in private register; inspection of files and records; request and identification; court order; petition to unseal marriage record; court order; findings; petition by surviving party; forwarding copy of license and marriage certificate to county clerk; access
• § 551.204 Privileged communications; violation of confidence as misdemeanor; publicity as misdemeanor; penalties; libel action; neglecting to make proper return; section inapplicable to license unsealed under section 3(2) or (3).
• § 551.272 Marriage not between man and woman invalidated