Utah Marriage Laws | § 30-1-31 | Premarital Counseling Board In County Appointment, Terms, Compensation, Offices Common Counseling Board With Adjacent County. Marriage Laws

Utah Code 30-1-31

Premarital counseling board in county -- Appointment, terms, compensation, offices -- Common counseling board with adjacent county.

The boards of commissioners of the respective counties in this state are authorized to provide for premarital counseling and to require the use of premarital counseling as a condition precedent to the issuance of a marriage license under the provisions of this act. They may appoint a premarital counseling board consisting of seven members, four of whom shall be lay persons and three of whom shall be chosen from the professions of psychiatry, psychology, social work, marriage counseling, the clergy, law or medicine. They may designate the terms of office and the procedures to be followed by the premarital counseling board and provide for payment of compensation and expenses for members. They may pay the salaries and expenses of a counseling staff under the supervision of the premarital counseling board and provide office space, furnishings, equipment and supplies for their use. A county may join with an adjacent county or counties in forming a common premarital counseling board and in establishing a common master plan for premarital counseling.

Enacted by Chapter 64, 1971 General Session

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§ 30-1-30 Premarital counseling or education -- State policy -- Applicability.
§ 30-1-4 Validity of foreign marriages -- Exceptions.
§ 30-1-17.2 Action to determine validity of marriage -- Orders relating to parties, property, and children -- Presumption of paternity in marriage.
§ 30-1-10 Affidavit before the clerk -- Penalty.
§ 30-1-31 Premarital counseling board in county -- Appointment, terms, compensation, offices -- Common counseling board with adjacent county.
§ 30-1-34 Completion of counseling or education.
§ 30-1-38 Fee for counseling.
§ 30-1-4.5 Validity of marriage not solemnized.
§ 30-1-8 Application for license -- Contents.
§ 30-1-6 Who may solemnize marriages -- Certificate.
§ 30-1-2.3 Validation of marriage to a person with acquired immune deficiency syndrome or other sexually transmitted disease.
§ 30-1-3 Marriage in belief of death or divorce of former spouse -- Issue legitimate.
§ 30-1-1 Incestuous marriages void.
§ 30-1-2 Marriages prohibited and void.
§ 30-1-2.1 Validation of marriage to a person subject to chronic epileptic fits who had not been sterilized.
§ 30-1-2.2 Validation of interracial marriages.
§ 30-1-7 Marriage licenses -- Use within state -- Expiration.
§ 30-1-9 Marriage by minors -- Consent of parent or guardian -- Juvenile court authorization.
§ 30-1-4.1 Marriage recognition policy.
§ 30-1-5 Marriage solemnization -- Before unauthorized person -- Validity.
§ 30-1-9.1 Parental consent to prohibited marriage of minor -- Penalty.
§ 30-1-17.4 Action for annulment or divorce as alternative relief.
§ 30-1-12 Clerk to file license and certificate.
§ 30-1-11 Return of license after ceremony -- Failure -- Penalty.
§ 30-1-14 Acting without authority -- Penalty.
§ 30-1-13 Solemnization without license -- Penalty.
§ 30-1-15 Solemnization of prohibited marriage -- Penalty.
§ 30-1-16 Misconduct of county clerk -- Penalty.
§ 30-1-17 Action to determine validity of marriage -- Judgment of validity or annulment.
§ 30-1-17.1 Annulment -- Grounds for.
§ 30-1-17.3 Age as basis of action to determine validity of marriage -- Refusal to grant annulment.
§ 30-1-32 Master plan for counseling.
§ 30-1-33 Conformity to master plan for counseling as prerequisite to marriage license -- Exceptions.
§ 30-1-35 Persons performing counseling services designated by board -- Exemption from license requirements.
§ 30-1-36 Activities included in premarital counseling or education.
§ 30-1-37 Confidentiality of information obtained under counseling provisions.