Chapter 572 — Chapter 572

PART I. REQUISITES, PROCEDURES §572-1 Requisites of valid marriage contract. In order to make valid the marriage contract, which shall be permitted between two individuals without regard to gender, it shall be necessary that:

§572-1.6 REPEALED. L 2011, c 1, §7.

§572-10 Applicant apparently under age. If any applicant for a license to marry appears to any agent to be under the age of eighteen years, the agent shall, before granting a license to marry, require the production of a certificate of birth or other satisfactory proof showing th…

§572-11 Marriage ceremony; license to solemnize; fees. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to perform a marriage ceremony within the State without first obtaining from the department of health a license to solemnize marriages. A standard license to solemnize marriages shall b…

§572-12 By whom solemnized. (a) A license to solemnize marriages may be issued to, and the marriage rite may be performed and solemnized by: upon presentation to the person or society solemnizing the marriage of a license to marry, as prescribed by this chapter. A person or socie…

§572-13 Record of solemnization; marriages, reported by whom; certified copies. (a) Recordkeeping. Every person authorized to solemnize marriage shall make and preserve a record of every marriage by the person solemnized, comprising the names of the parties married, their place o…

§572-14 REPEALED. L 1974, c 31, §3.

§572-15 Delivery of records to department of health; penalty. Whenever any agent authorized to grant marriage licenses ceases to be an agent, or is directed to do so by the department of health, or leaves the State, the agent shall deliver to the department all the agent's record…

§572-2 Consent of parent or guardian. Whenever any person who is under the age of eighteen is to be married, the written consent of his or her parents, or guardian or other person in whose care and custody he or she may be, shall accompany the application for a license to marry. …

§572-22 Contracts. (a) A married person may make contracts, oral and written, sealed and unsealed, with the married person's spouse, or any other person, in the same manner as if the married person were sole. (b) An agreement between spouses providing for periodic payments for th…

§572-25 Separate property. The real and personal property of a spouse, upon marriage, shall remain that spouse's separate property, free from the management, control, debts, and obligations of the other spouse; and a spouse may receive, receipt for, hold, manage, and dispose of p…

§572-26 May be personal representative, guardian, trustee, or other fiduciary. A married person may be a personal representative, guardian, trustee, custodian, or other fiduciary and may bind the person's self and the estate the person represents without any act or assent on the …

§572-27 Persons as sureties. All persons, upon attaining their majority, and having the necessary property qualifications as by law required, may act, serve, and be sureties on all bonds and undertakings required under the laws of the State. [L 1923, c 9, §1; RL 1925, §2997; RL 1…

§572-28 Suits by and against. A married person may sue and be sued in the same manner as if the person were sole. This section shall be construed to authorize tort suits between spouses. [L 1888, c 11, §5; RL 1925, §2998; RL 1935, §4649; RL 1945, §12370; RL 1955, §325-5; HRS §573…

§572-29 Marriage settlement not invalidated. Nothing contained in this part shall invalidate any marriage settlement or contract. [L 1888, c 11, §11; RL 1925, §3004; RL 1935, §4655; RL 1945, §12376; RL 1955, §325-8; HRS §573-8; ren and am L 1987, c 46, §3 and am c 283, §59]

§572-3 Contracted without the State. Marriages between two individuals regardless of gender and legal where contracted shall be held legal in the courts of this State. [CC 1859, §1290; RL 1925, §2945; RL 1935, §4632; RL 1945, §12353; RL 1955, §323-3; HRS §572-3; am L 1994, c 217,…

§572-4 Right of domicile, sex or marital status. The right of an individual to be or to become a resident domiciled in this State shall not be denied or abridged because of the sex or marital status of the individual. The residence of one spouse does not establish the residence o…

§572-5 Marriage license; agent to grant; fee. (a) The department of health shall appoint, and at its pleasure remove, one or more suitable persons as agents authorized to grant marriage licenses under this chapter in each judicial circuit. The agents may issue licenses from any s…

§572-6 Application; license; limitations. (a) To secure a license to marry, the persons applying for the license shall appear: The application shall be accompanied by a statement signed and sworn to by each of the persons, setting forth: each person's full name, date of birth, so…

§572-7 REPEALED. L 1995, c 153, §3.

§572-8 REPEALED. L 1968, c 35, §2.

§572-9 Persons under age. Whenever any person who is under the age of eighteen, whose parents are dead, or who is a ward of a family court, applies for a license to marry, he or she shall set forth in the statement accompanying the application, the name of his or her guardian or …