Marriage may be solemnized by any qualified clergyman, judge or justice of the peace. CAUSES FOR DIVORCE: 1. Adultery. 2. Impotency at time of marriage. 3. Sentence of either party to prison for three years or more. 4. Desertion continued two years. 5. Habitual drunkenness. 6. In the court's discretion, a divorce may be granted to any resident whose husband or wife has obtained a divorce in another State. Limited or absolute divorces may also be granted for extreme cruelty; utter desertion for two years; and wanton failure of husband to support his wife. MINNESOTA. MARRIAGE.--The minimum age for males is 18 years, for females 15 years. Parental consent is required for marriage of male under 21 years or female under 18 years. The prohibited degrees of consanguinity and affinity are the same as in Michigan. No particular form of marriage ceremony is prescribed, but a license is necessary. CAUSES FOR DIVORCE: 1. Adultery. 2. Impotency. 3. Cruel and inhuman treatment. 4. Sentence to State prison. 5. Wilful desertion continued for three years. 6. Habitual drunkenness. Limited divorces are granted to women only on the grounds of husband's cruelty, abandonment, or such conduct on husband's part as makes cohabitation unsafe. MISSISSIPPI. MARRIAGE.--The minimum age for marriage is not fixed by statute. Parental consent is required for males under 21 years and females under 18 years. The prohibited degrees of relationship are the same as in Massachusetts. Marriages of whites with negroes, mulattoes, or persons having more than one-eighth negro blood, and marriages between Mongolians, or persons having more than one-eighth Mongolian blood, are prohibited. Marriage cannot be concluded without a license duly issued. It may be solemnized by either clergyman or magistrate. CAUSES FOR DIVORCE: 1. Relationship within prohibited degrees. 2. Impotency. 3. Adultery. 4. Sentence to penitentiary. 5. Wilful desertion continued two years. 6. Habitual drunkenness. 7. Pregnancy of the wife at marriage, by another man, unknown to husband. 8. Habitual cruelty. 9. If either party had another husband or wife at time of second marriage. 10. Insanity. 11. Habitual use of opium, morphine or other drug. Limited divorces are not granted. MISSOURI. MARRIAGE.--The minimum age at which marriage can be concluded is 15 years for males and 12 years for females. Parental consent is necessary for males under 21 years or females under 18 years. PROHIBITED DEGREES.--Marriage is forbidden between ascendants and descendants, between brothers and sisters of the half as well as of the whole blood, and between uncles and nieces, and aunts and nephews. This applies to legitimate or illegitimate kindred. Marriage is also prohibited between whites and negroes. FORMALITIES.--No particular form of marriage is prescribed, but a license is necessary. CAUSES FOR DIVORCE: 1. Impotency. 2. Adultery. 3. Absence without reasonable cause for one year.