MARRIAGE

See also ANNULMENT; DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE; LEGAL SEPARATION

Age

Insufficient grounds for annulment, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.04

Proof of age, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.08

Requirements, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.02

Underage, annulment, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.02

Witnesses, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.10

Antenuptial agreements

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 519.11

Statutory rule against perpetuities, Minn. Statutes 2025 501A.04

Bigamy, Minn. Statutes 2025 609.355

Breach of contract, lawsuits, Minn. Statutes 2025 553.01 to 553.03

Breach of marriage promise, Minn. Statutes 2025 553.01 to 553.03

Ceremonies, see Solemnization under this topic

Certificates and certification

Amendment, Minn. Statutes 2025 144.2181, 517.103

Certified copies, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.101, 600.20

Corrections, Minn. Statutes 2025 144.2181

Local registrars, duties, Minn. Statutes 2025 144.223, 517.10, 517.13

Prima facie evidence of marriage, Minn. Statutes 2025 600.20

Record keeping, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.10, 517.13

Requirements, generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.10

Security of vital records system, Minn. Statutes 2025 144.2131

Solemnization, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.10

Violations, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.13, 517.14

Vital records, marriage certificates defined as, Minn. Statutes 2025 144.212

Change of name

Convicted persons, Minn. Statutes 2025 259.115, 259.13, 517.08

Marriage license applications, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.08

Civil marriage officiants, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.04

Civil marriages, construction of law, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.23

Cohabitation, see COHABITATION

Community property, see COMMUNITY PROPERTY

Consent

Capacity lacking annulment, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.02

Developmentally disabled wards, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.03

Parties, generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.01

Consummation, physical capacity lacking, annulment, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.02

Contracts and agreements

Breach of marriage promise, lawsuits, Minn. Statutes 2025 553.01 to 553.03

Civil marriages, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.23

Husbands and wives, rights and privileges, Minn. Statutes 2025 519.06

Marriage defined as civil contract, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.01

Statute of frauds, Minn. Statutes 2025 513.01

Conveyances, husbands and wives, rights and privileges, Minn. Statutes 2025 519.03, 519.04, 519.07

Convicted persons, child custody, effect, Minn. Statutes 2025 257.026

Criminal sexual conduct, consent, and social relationship of parties, Minn. Statutes 2025 609.341

Definitions

Civil marriages, application of law, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.23

Domestic relations, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.01

Intestate estates, Minn. Statutes 2025 524.2-201

Developmentally disabled persons

Human Services Department, duties, Minn. Statutes 2025 252A.111, 517.03

Licenses, see same under this topic

Wards, consent, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.03

Divorce, see DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE

Evidence of

Admissions, Minn. Statutes 2025 602.02

Cohabitation, Minn. Statutes 2025 602.02

Marriage certificates, Minn. Statutes 2025 600.20

False personation, in entering, Minn. Statutes 2025 609.83

Fees, marriage licenses, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.08

Forms, license applications, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.08

Gender-neutral language, civil marriages, application of law, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.201

Illegal marriages, violations and penalties, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.14

Income taxes, determination of marriage, Internal Revenue Code, Minn. Statutes 2025 289A.08

Lawsuits, right of action abolished, Minn. Statutes 2025 553.01 to 553.03

Licenses

Amendment, error correction, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.103

Applications, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.02, 517.03, 517.08

Convicted persons, change of name, Minn. Statutes 2025 259.115, 259.13, 517.08

Court administrators, duties, Minn. Statutes 2025 485.27

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.08

Obtaining, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.07

Required, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.01

Saint Louis County, deputy court administrator, Minn. Statutes 2025 484.44

Marital privilege of witnesses

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 595.02

Prostitution, Minn. Statutes 2025 609.326

Married persons, patients bill of rights, Minn. Statutes 2025 144.651

Missing persons, dissolution if declared dead, Minn. Statutes 2025 578.19

Null and void

Exceptions, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.01

Grounds, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.02

Irregularity of officiating person, exception, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.16

Marriages subsequent to April 26, 1941, unlawfully contracted, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.01

Prohibited marriages, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.01, 517.03, 518.01

Oaths

Court administrators, duties, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.06

Local registrars, duties, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.08

Parties examined, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.06, 517.08

Parent and child relationship, not dependent on marriage, Minn. Statutes 2025 257.53

Policy of state, breach of contract to marry, Minn. Statutes 2025 553.01

Premarital education, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.08

Previous marriage, null and void status, dissolution of marriage, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.01

Prohibited marriages

Contract violations, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.01

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.03

Null and void, Minn. Statutes 2025 518.01

Promise of marriage, coercion for use in prostitution, Minn. Statutes 2025 611A.80 to 611A.88

Records and record keeping

Amendments, error correction, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.103

Certificates and certification, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.10, 517.13

Licenses, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.08

Solemnization, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.10

Remarriage, see REMARRIAGE

Same sex-civil marriages, application of law, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.201

Solemnization

Court commissioners, duties, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.041

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.04, 517.09, 517.10

Oaths, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.06, 517.08

Parties examined, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.06, 517.08

Performing, Minn. Statutes 2025 484.62, 489.02

Unauthorized, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.15

Validity, irregularity of officiating person, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.16

Violations, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.14

Witnesses authorized, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.01, 517.09

Status of spouses, separation, effect on trusts, Minn. Statutes 2025 501C.1207

Validity

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.20

Irregularity of officiating person, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.16

Venue, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.07

Violations and penalties

Ceremony, unauthorized, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.15

False personation, in entering, Minn. Statutes 2025 609.83

Licenses, violations, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.08

Solemnization, violations, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.15

Void marriages, see Null and void under this topic

Witnesses

Age requirement, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.10

Signatures on marriage certificates, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.10

Solemnization, authority, Minn. Statutes 2025 517.01, 517.09