MARRIAGE.--Marriage is a civil contract. The minimum marriageable age for males and for females has not been fixed by statute.
Parental consent is required for males under 21 years or for females under 18 years.
IMPEDIMENTS.--All marriages between parents and children, including grandparents and grandchildren, of every degree; between brothers and sisters of the half as well as of the whole blood; and between uncles and nieces and aunts and nephews are declared to be incestuous and void. This provision applies to illegitimate as well as to legitimate children.
The statute contains a provision that persons living in that portion of the State acquired from Mexico are permitted to marry according to the custom of that country.
No person can lawfully conclude marriage within one year after divorce.
Marriages are also forbidden between whites and negroes or mulattoes.
MARRIAGE.--A civil contract. The minimum age for males is 16 years, for females 14 years.
The consent of the father or mother is necessary in marriages of males under the age of twenty-one years, and of females under the age of eighteen years, unless the party under age has been previously lawfully married.
IMPEDIMENTS.--A man shall not marry his grandmother, grandfather's wife, wife's grandmother, father's sister, mother's sister, mother, stepmother, wife's mother, daughter, wife's daughter, son's wife, sister, son's daughter, daughter's daughter, son's son's wife, daughter's son's wife, wife's son's daughter, wife's daughter's daughter, brother's daughter, sister's daughter. A woman shall not marry her grandfather, grandmother's husband, husband's grandfather, father's brother, mother's brother, father, stepfather, husband's father, son, husband's son, daughter's husband, brother, son's son, daughter's son, son's daughter's husband, daughter's daughter's husband, husband's son's son, husband's daughter's son, brother's son, sister's son.
CELEBRATION.--Marriage may be solemnized before a judge of any court of record, or any justice of the peace, or by any minister or ordained person who has furnished proof of his official capacity to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
Licenses to marry are issued by the clerk of the Supreme Court upon an affidavit showing that the contracting parties are competent and that all the requirements of law have been complied with.