District of Columbia.
Marriage.—A civil contract. The minimum age for males is 16 years, for females 14 years.
The consent of the father or mother is necessary in marriages of males under the age of twenty-one years, and of females under the age of eighteen years, unless the party under age has been previously lawfully married.
Impediments.—A man shall not marry his grandmother, grandfather’s wife, wife’s grandmother, father’s sister, mother’s sister, mother, stepmother, wife’s mother, daughter, wife’s daughter, son’s wife, sister, son’s daughter, daughter’s daughter, son’s son’s wife, daughter’s son’s wife, wife’s son’s daughter, wife’s daughter’s daughter, brother’s daughter, sister’s daughter. A woman shall not marry her grandfather, grandmother’s husband, husband’s grandfather, father’s brother, mother’s brother, father, stepfather, husband’s father, son, husband’s son, daughter’s husband, brother, son’s son, daughter’s son, son’s daughter’s husband, daughter’s daughter’s husband, husband’s son’s son, husband’s daughter’s son, brother’s son, sister’s son.
Celebration.—Marriage may be solemnized before a judge of any court of record, or any justice of the peace, or by any minister or ordained person who has furnished proof of his official capacity to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
Licenses to marry are issued by the clerk of the Supreme Court upon an affidavit showing that the contracting parties are competent and that all the requirements of law have been complied with.
Divorce.—There is only one cause for a divorce, namely, adultery. A judicial separation or divorce from bed and board may be granted because of cruelty, unjustifiable desertion or drunkenness.
Marriages procured by fraud or coercion, or between parties incapable by reason of insanity or non-age of concluding the contract, can be annulled.
Petitioners in matrimonial causes must have been bona fide residents of the District of Columbia before instituting proceedings.
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