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Family Law - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Limitations on marriage
        
        Prior marriage still in force
        
        Fraud
        
        Capacity
        
        Lack of consent: Intoxication
        
        Mental capacity: must understand the nature of the marriage contract
        
        Age: parental consent required If under 18. States may require court approval If under 16 and prohibit marriage under 14.
        
        Not closely-related
      - Only a minority of states recognize
      - Requirements—state-specific:
        
        Consent
        
        Cohabitation
        
        Holding out as husband and wife
        
        Legal capacity
      - Issue still relevant for recognition by another state
        
        Basis—full faith and credit clause of the constitution
        
        Second state must recognize a valid marriage from another state
    - - Solemnization: ceremony performed by an authorized official
      - License