Marriage and Divorce Laws of the WorldRingrose, Hyacinthe
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Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World
Ringrose, Hyacinthe
Divorce -- Law and legislation; Marriage law
Marriages between whites and negroes or Mongolians, or persons of
one-fourth or more negro or Mongolian blood.
CAUSES FOR DIVORCE:
1. Impotency.
2. Adultery.
3. Conviction of felony.
4. Habitual drunkenness.
5. Wilful desertion for one year.
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:
1. Natural impotence or incapacity of procreation at time of marriage, and
still continuing.
2. Former marriage still subsisting.
3. Adultery.
4. Wilful and malicious desertion for the space of two years.
5. Husband's cruel and barbarous treatment endangering wife's life.
6. Husband having offered such indignities to wife as to render her
condition intolerable and life burdensome.
7. Relationship within prohibited degrees.
8. Marriage procured by fraud, force or coercion.
9. Wife's cruel and barbarous treatment of husband.
10. That either of the parties has been convicted as principal or
accessory of the crime of arson, burglary, embezzlement, forgery,
kidnapping, larceny, murder in first or second degree, voluntary
manslaughter, perjury, rape, robbery, sodomy, buggery, treason, or
misprison of treason, and has been sentenced to prison for more than two
years.
11. That either husband or wife is a hopeless lunatic or _non compos
mentis_.
Confinement for ten years or more in an asylum for the insane is
conclusive proof of hopeless insanity.
LIMITED DIVORCE.--This may be granted for:
1. Husband turning wife out of doors.
2. Husband's cruel and barbarous treatment of wife.
3. Husband offering such indignities to his wife as to render her
condition intolerable and force her to leave his house.
Upon hearing any cause for divorce the court may decree either a divorce
or a decree of nullity.
RHODE ISLAND.
MARRIAGE.--No age fixed for marriage. Parental consent required for all
minors.
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