Title 81, Title 81: Utah Domestic Relations Code

81-2-203. Premarital counseling board in county -- Appointment, terms, compensation, offices -- Common counseling board with adjacent county. (1) A county is authorized to: provide for premarital counseling; and require the use of premarital counseling as a condition precedent to…

81-2-204. Master plan for counseling. (1) It shall be the function and duty of the premarital counseling board, after holding public hearings, to make, adopt, and certify to the county legislative body a master plan for premarital counseling of marriage license applicants within …

81-2-205. Conformity to master plan for counseling as prerequisite to marriage license -- Exceptions. Whenever a county has adopted a master plan for premarital counseling no resident of the county may obtain a marriage license without conforming to the plan, except that: (1) an …

81-2-206. Completion of counseling or education. (1) The county clerk of a county that operates an online marriage application system and issues a marriage license to applicants who certify completion of premarital counseling or education in accordance with Subsection (2) shall r…

81-2-207. Persons performing counseling services designated by board -- Exemption from license requirements. For the purposes of this part, the premarital counseling board of each county or combination of counties may determine those persons who are to perform any services under …

81-2-208. Confidentiality of information obtained under counseling provisions. (1) Except for the information required or to be required on the marriage license application form, any information given by a marriage license applicant in compliance with this part: shall be confiden…

81-2-209. Fee for counseling. Any county adopting a master plan under this act is authorized to charge, in addition to the county's ordinary marriage license application fees, not more than $10 for premarital counseling, to be paid by the applicants at the time the applicants mak…

81-2-301. Definitions for part. As used in this part: (1) "County clerk" means: the county clerk of the county; or an employee or designee of the county clerk who is authorized to issue marriage licenses or solemnize marriages. (2) "Judge or magistrate of the United States" means…

81-2-302. Marriage licenses -- Use within state -- Expiration. (1) A marriage may not be solemnized in this state without a license issued by the county clerk of any county of this state. (2) A license issued within this state by a county clerk may only be used within this state.…

81-2-303. Application for marriage license -- Contents. (1) A county clerk may issue a marriage license only after an application is filed with the county clerk's office, requiring the following information: the full names of the applicants, including the maiden or bachelor name …

81-2-304. Marriage of a minor -- Consent of parent or guardian -- Juvenile court authorization. (1) If an applicant is a minor at the time of applying for a license, a county clerk may not issue a marriage license without the signed consent of the minor's parent or legal guardian…

81-2-305. Who may solemnize marriages -- Certificate. (1) The following individuals may solemnize a marriage: an individual 18 years old or older who is authorized by a religious denomination to solemnize a marriage; a Native American spiritual advisor; the governor; the lieutena…

81-2-306. County clerk to file license and certificate -- Designation as vital record. (1) The county clerk shall: file and preserve the marriage license returned by an individual under Subsectionwith the certificate of the marriage; and 81-2-305(5) record the marriage license an…

81-2-401. Definitions for part. Reserved.

81-2-402. Incestuous marriages void. (1) The following marriages are incestuous and void from the beginning, regardless of whether the relationship is legally recognized: a marriage between a parent and a child; a marriage between an ancestor and a descendant of any degree; a mar…

81-2-403. Marriages prohibited and void. (1) A marriage is prohibited and void if: there is a spouse living from whom the individual marrying has not been divorced; except as provided in Subsection, the individual marrying is under 18 years old; or (2) between a divorced individu…

81-2-404. Validation of a marriage to an individual subject to chronic epileptic fits who had not been sterilized. A marriage between two individuals that was not valid or legal before May 14, 1963, on the basis that a party was subject to chronic epileptic fits and had not been …

81-2-405. Recognition and validation of a marriage regardless of the race, ethnicity, or national origin of the parties. (1) As used in this section: "Eligible couple" means two individuals that may legally marry each other in this state. "Specified characteristic" means the race…

81-2-406. Validation of a marriage to an individual with acquired immune deficiency syndrome or other sexually transmitted disease. A marriage between two individuals that was not valid or legal before October 21, 1993, on the basis that a party was afflicted with acquired immune…

81-2-407. Validity of a foreign marriage -- Exceptions. (1) As used in this section, "minor" means an individual who is younger than 18 years old. (2) A marriage solemnized in any other country, state, or territory, if valid where solemnized, is valid in this state, unless: the m…

81-2-408. Validity of marriage not solemnized or solemnized before an unauthorized individual. (1) Before May 5, 2027, an individual may file a petition with a court to validate and make legal a marriage that is not solemnized in accordance with this chapter. (2) On a filing of a…

81-2-409. Legal recognition of a child when marriage is void. When a marriage is void under Subsectionand the parties entered into the marriage in good faith, a child of the marriage, who is born or conceived before the parties had actual knowledge that the marriage was void, sha…