Utah Marriage Laws | § 30-1-34 | Completion Of Counseling Or Education. Marriage Laws

Utah Code 30-1-34

Completion of counseling or education.

(1) The county clerk of a county that operates an online marriage application system and issues a marriage license to applicants who certify completion of premarital counseling or education in accordance with Subsection (2) shall reduce the marriage license fee by $20. (2) (a) To qualify for the reduced fee under Subsection (1), the applicants shall certify completion of premarital counseling or education in accordance with this Subsection (2). (b) To complete premarital counseling or education, the applicants: (i) shall obtain the premarital counseling or education from: (A) a licensed or ordained minister or the minister's designee who is trained by the minister or denomination to conduct premarital counseling or education; (B) an individual licensed under Title 58, Chapter 60, Mental Health Professional Practice Act; (C) an individual certified by a national organization recognized by the Utah Marriage Commission, created in Section 62A-1-120, as a family life educator; (D) a family and consumer sciences educator; (E) an individual who is an instructor approved by a premarital education curriculum that meets the requirements of Subsection (2)(b)(ii); or (F) an online course approved by the Utah Marriage Commission; (ii) shall receive premarital counseling or education that includes information on important factors associated with strong and healthy marriages, including: (A) commitment in marriage; and (B) effective communication and problem-solving skills, including avoiding violence and abuse in the relationship; (iii) shall complete at least three hours of premarital counseling or six hours of premarital education meeting the requirements of this Subsection (2); and (iv) shall complete the premarital counseling or education meeting the requirements of this Subsection (2) not more than one year before but at least 14 days before the day on which the marriage license is issued. (c) Although applicants are encouraged to take the premarital counseling or education together, each applicant may comply with the requirements of this Subsection (2) separately. (3) A provider of premarital counseling or education under this section is encouraged to use research-based relationship inventories.

Amended by Chapter 347, 2018 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.
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§ 30-1-38 Fee for counseling.
§ 30-1-2.2 Repealed Validation of interracial marriages.
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§ 30-1-7 Marriage licenses -- Use within state -- Solemnization requirements -- Expiration.
§ 30-1-4.5 Validity of marriage not solemnized.
§ 30-1-8 Application for license -- Contents -- Power of attorney not permitted.
§ 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.
§ 30-1-4.1 Marriage recognition policy.
§ 30-1-9 Marriage by minors -- Consent of parent or guardian -- Juvenile court authorization.
§ 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.
§ 30-1-14 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.
§ 30-1-11 Return of license after ceremony -- Penalty for failure to return -- Criminal penalty for false statement.
§ 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.