Nevada Revised Statutes (Last Updated: December 24, 2014) |
TITLE11 DOMESTIC RELATIONS |
CHAPTER122. Marriage |
AUTHENTICATION OF MARRIAGE |
Solemnization |
NRS122.090. Marriage solemnized by unauthorized person: When valid.
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- No marriage solemnized before any person professing to be a judge, justice, minister or other church or religious official authorized to solemnize a marriage, notary public to whom a certificate of permission to perform marriages has been issued, commissioner of civil marriages or deputy commissioner of civil marriages shall be deemed or adjudged to be void, nor shall the validity thereof be in any way affected on account of any want of jurisdiction or authority, provided it be consummated with a full belief on the part of the persons so married, or either of them, that they have been lawfully joined in marriage.
[13:33:1861; B § 206; BH § 482; C § 493; RL § 2349; NCL § 4061]—(NRS A 1969, 764; 2009, 731; 2013, 1195)