FMSC 487 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Capacitation, Nuclear Family, Infection
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Proxy marriage: 2 people go thru valid marriage even tho they are both in diff. jurisdiction. Achieving marital status: getting a license and return it only requirement, the only government involvement couple must obtain license and return to. Voidable deemed valid unless set aside through thru annulment. Annulment a declaration of invalidity declares that a marriage never existed b/c of a legal impediment at ceremony/inception of marriage: minimum age requirement. Void from beginning; eg. bigamy, incest, etc: east state sets the age to marry. Most are 18, some as low as 13 with parent consent. Mom consented to marriage: but ward of state, so it challenged marriage, holding: they were common law married so didn"t need to have state/parents approval if 16, means there is no minimum age for common law marriages in. Matthew koso, rapist or husband and father: (e"s (cid:884)(cid:884) and he gets a (cid:883)4-year-old girl crystal pregnant in nebraska.