2005 Minnesota Statutes

     517.02 Persons capable of contracting. 

    Every person who has attained the full age of 18 years is 
 capable in law of contracting marriage, if otherwise competent.  
 A person of the full age of 16 years may, with the consent of 
 the person's parents, guardian, or the court, as provided in 
 section 517.08, receive a license to marry, when, after a 
 careful inquiry into the facts and the surrounding 
 circumstances, the person's application for a license is 
 approved by the judge of the juvenile court of the county in 
 which the person resides.  If the judge of juvenile court of the 
 county in which the person resides is absent from the county and 
 has not by order assigned another judge or a retired judge to 
 act in the judge's stead, then the court commissioner or any 
 judge of district court of the county may approve the 
 application for a license. 

    HIST: (8563) RL s 3553; 1927 c 166; 1949 c 374 s 1; 1963 c 795 
 s 1; 1967 c 506 s 1; 1973 c 725 s 72; 1981 c 58 s 1; 1995 c 189 
 s 8; 1996 c 277 s 1