6. Cruel and inhuman treatment, or personal indignities rendering life burdensome.
Pennsylvania.
Marriage.—The minimum age for marriage is not fixed by statute. Both males and females require parental consent to marry under 21 years of age.
Impediments.—A man may not marry his mother, father’s sister, mother’s sister, sister, daughter, granddaughter, father’s wife, son’s wife, son’s daughter, wife’s daughter, daughter of wife’s son or daughter.
A woman may not marry her father, father’s brother, mother’s brother, brother, son, grandson, mother’s husband, daughter’s husband, husband’s son, son of her husband’s son or daughter.
By the act effective January 1, 1902, marriage is prohibited between persons who are of kin of the degree of first cousins.
Formalities.—License is necessary unless there is a publication of banns.
The parties may solemnize their own marriage by obtaining from the clerk of the orphans’ court a formal declaration of their right to do so instead of a license.
Marriage may be solemnized by any minister of the Gospel, justice of the peace, or alderman, or by the parties themselves.
Causes for Absolute Divorce: