Tennessee Marriage Laws | § 36-3-101

Tennessee Code 36-3-101

Prohibited degrees of relationship.

Marriage cannot be contracted with a lineal ancestor or descendant, nor the lineal ancestor or descendant of either parent, nor the lineal descendant of a grandparent, nor the lineal descendants of husband or wife, as the case may be, nor the husband or wife of a parent or lineal descendant.

Code 1858, § 2436 (deriv. Acts 1829, ch. 23, § 18); Shan., § 4185; Code 1932, § 8408; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 36-401.; 2024 PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 806

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§ 36-3-106 Consent of parent, guardian, next of kin, agency or custodian — “Parent” defined.
§ 36-3-301 Persons who may solemnize marriages.
§ 36-3-104 Conditions precedent to issuance of license.
§ 36-3-102 Second marriage before dissolution of first prohibited — Effect of absence for five years.
§ 36-3-103 License required — County of issuance.
§ 36-3-101 Prohibited degrees of relationship.
§ 36-3-105 Minimum age of applicant for license.
§ 36-3-109 Issuance of license to drunks, insane persons or imbeciles forbidden.
§ 36-3-110 Contest of issuance.
§ 36-3-111 County clerk violating law — Penalty.
§ 36-3-112 Fraudulently signing or using false documents — Misdemeanor.
§ 36-3-113 Marriage between one man and one woman only legally recognized marital contract. [See Compiler's Note.]
§ 36-3-304 Form of certificate.
§ 36-3-305 Solemnizing marriage between incapable persons — Misdemeanor.
§ 36-3-306 Marriage consummated by ceremony not invalidated by failure to comply with law — Restriction.
§ 36-3-307 Nickname in license does not invalidate marriage.
§ 36-3-308 Marriages during War Between the States validated.
§ 36-3-108 Forced marriage prohibited — Civil action.
§ 36-3-302 Formula not required.
§ 36-3-303 Return of license to clerk — Penalty for failure to return — Society of Friends.