Marriage.—No age is fixed by statute at which minors are capable of contracting marriage.
The parents or guardians must give consent in writing to the registrar before a license is issued if either party is a minor.
Consanguinity and Affinity.—No man shall marry his mother, grandmother, daughter, granddaughter, sister, aunt, niece, stepmother or stepdaughter; no woman shall marry her father, grandfather, son, grandson, brother, uncle, nephew, stepfather or stepson. All such marriages are declared to be incestuous.
Celebration.—Any ordained clergyman of any State, any judge or justice of the peace may solemnize marriage. No special form of celebration is required.
Annulment.—Whenever, from any cause, any marriage is void the superior court has jurisdiction, upon complaint, to pass a decree declaring it so.
Legitimacy of Children.—Children born before marriage whose parents afterwards intermarry are deemed legitimate and inherit equally with other children.
Divorce.—The Superior Court has exclusive jurisdiction and may grant absolute divorce to any man or woman for the following offences committed by the other: Adultery, fraudulent contract, wilful desertion for three years with total neglect of duty, seven years’ absence unheard from, habitual intemperance, intolerable cruelty, sentence to imprisonment for life, or any infamous crime involving a violation of conjugal duty and punishable by imprisonment in State prison.
Parties divorced may marry again.
There is no limited divorce recognized by the laws of Connecticut.
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