Montana Marriage Laws | § 40-1-201

Montana Code Annotated 40-1-201

License application.

(1) Parties may not be joined in marriage within this state until a license has been obtained for that purpose from a clerk of the district court. (2) A license authorizes a marriage ceremony to be performed in any county of this state. (3) If an applicant for a marriage license is a nonresident of the county where the license is to issue, the nonresident applicant's part of the application may be completed and sworn to or affirmed before the person authorized to accept license applications in the county and state in which the nonresident applicant resides.

En. Sec. 5, Ch. 232, L. 1963; amd. Sec. 8, Ch. 33, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 48-146; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 42, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 1557, Ch. 56, L. 2009; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 393, L. 2017.

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§ 40-1-301 Solemnization and registration.
§ 40-1-105 Application of Montana Rules of Civil Procedure.
§ 40-1-107 Form of application, license, marriage certificate, and consent.
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§ 40-1-102 Uniformity of application and construction.
§ 40-1-103 Formalities.
§ 40-1-106 Parts of code not applicable.
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§ 40-1-202 License issuance
§ 40-1-203 Proof of age.
§ 40-1-212 Effective period of license.
§ 40-1-311 Declaration of marriage without solemnization.
§ 40-1-312 Persons who may prepare declaration of marriage.
§ 40-1-313 Penalty.
§ 40-1-322 Certificate and copy presumptive evidence.
§ 40-1-323 Proof of solemnized marriage when no record.
§ 40-1-324 Declaration to be acknowledged and recorded.
§ 40-1-403 Validity of common-law marriage.
§ 40-1-404 Putative spouse.