New York Marriage Laws | § 10-A

New York Laws - Domestic Relations 10-A

Parties to a marriage

1. A marriage that is otherwise valid shall be valid regardless of whether the parties to the marriage are of the same or different sex. 2. No government treatment or legal status, effect, right, benefit, privilege, protection or responsibility relating to marriage, whether deriving from statute, administrative or court rule, public policy, common law or any other source of law, shall differ based on the parties to the marriage being or having been of the same sex rather than a different sex. When necessary to implement the rights and responsibilities of spouses under the law, all gender-specific language or terms shall be construed in a gender-neutral manner in all such sources of law.

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§ 1 Short title
§ 2 Definitions
§ 14 Town and city clerks to issue marriage licenses; form
§ 5 Incestuous and void marriages
§ 6 Void marriages
§ 8 Marriage after divorce
§ 10 Marriage a civil contract
§ 7 Voidable marriages
§ 11-B Registration of persons performing marriage ceremonies in the city of New York
§ 11 By whom a marriage must be solemnized
§ 12 Marriage, how solemnized
§ 13-AA Test to determine the presence of sickle cell anemia
§ 13-D Duty of clerk issuing marriage license
§ 14-A Town and city clerks to issue certificates of marriage registration; form
§ 15 Duty of town and city clerks
§ 15-A Marriages of minors under eighteen years of age
§ 16 False statements and affidavits
§ 17 Clergyman or officer violating article; penalty
§ 18 Clergymen or officer, when protected
§ 19-A Marriages on vessels; reports and records
§ 19 Records to be kept by town and city clerks
§ 20-A Certified transcripts of records; state commissioner of health may furnish
§ 21 Forms and books to be furnished
§ 22 Penalty for violation
§ 25 License, when to be obtained
§ 10-A Parties to a marriage
§ 24 Effect of marriage on legitimacy of children
§ 10-B Religious exception
§ 11-C Marriage officers
§ 15-B Temporary provisions authorizing issuance of marriage license, upon court order, without consent of a parent in armed forces of United St...
§ 20 Records to be kept by the state department of health and the city clerk of the city of New York
§ 20-B Certification of marriage; state commissioner of health may furnish
§ 23 Supervision of and inspection of town and city clerks' records by state commissioner of health
§ 11-A Duty of city clerk in certain cities of the first class; facsimile signature of said clerk authorized
§ 13 Marriage licenses
§ 13-C Twenty-four hour provision waived in certain cases
§ § 13-b Time within which marriage may be solemnized
§ 13-B Time within which marriage may be solemnized
§ 11-d One-day marriage officiant license