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Revised Statutes of Missouri

Chapter 451

Mo. Rev. Stat. ch. 451

Marriage, Marriage Contracts, and Rights of Married Women

451.010Marriage a civil contract 451.020Certain marriages prohibited — official issuing licenses to certain persons guilty of misdemeanor 451.022Public policy, same sex marriages prohibited — license may not be issued 451.030Bigamous marriage void 451.040Marriage license required, waiting period — presence not required, when — application, contents — license void when — common law of marriages void — lack of authority to perform marriage, effect — online applications, procedure 451.050(Repealed L. 1980 S.B. 532 § 1)Repealed 451.060(Repealed L. 1981 S.B. 21 & 113 § 1)Repealed 451.070(Repealed L. 1981 S.B. 21 & 113 § 1)Repealed 451.090Issuance of license prohibited, when — proof of age 451.100Marriages solemnized by whom 451.110Certificate of marriage to be given 451.115Marriages illegally solemnized — penalty 451.120Penalty for solemnizing marriage without license, or failing to keep a record thereof 451.130Penalty for failure to issue, record or return license 451.140(Repealed L. 1989 S.B. 127)Repealed 451.150Licenses to be recorded — fee 451.151Additional fee for issuing marriage license or certified copies — amount to be collected by county recorder, duty to deposit — how 451.160Names of children born before marriage shall be recorded 451.170Lost record of marriage supplied, how 451.180New certificate obtained, how 451.190Record supplied by certificate of witnesses, how 451.200Certificates and affidavits recorded when records lost or destroyed — fee 451.210Rerecording where marriage records are destroyed — fee 451.220Marriage contracts to be in writing, acknowledged or proved 451.230How acknowledged or proved — to be recorded, where 451.240Contract so recorded shall impart notice, to whom 451.250Married persons to hold real and personal property as separate property — liable for what 451.260Rents of married person's real estate exempt from liability for spouse's debts, when 451.270Property of married person exempt from debts of spouse incurred before marriage 451.280(Repealed L. 2001 H.B. 537 § A)Repealed 451.290Wife deemed femme sole, when 451.300Conveyance of property when one of the spouses is disabled and under conservatorship or a guardian ad litem is appointed