District of Columbia Statutes

§ 46-404 — Persons allowed to institute annulment proceedings.

District of Columbia·Title 46 Domestic Relations.·Ch. 4 Marriage.
A proceeding to declare the nullity of a marriage may be instituted in the case of an infant under the age of consent by such infant, through a next friend, or by the parent or guardian of such infant; and in the case of a person with mental illness, by next friend. But no such proceedings shall be allowed to be instituted by any person who, being fully capable of contracting a marriage, has knowingly and wilfully contracted any marriage declared illegal by the foregoing sections.

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Related

In re Estate of Randall
999 A.2d 51 (District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 2010)
3 case citations

Legislative History

Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1392, ch. 854, § 1286; June 30, 1902, 32 Stat. 543, ch. 1329; Sept. 26, 2012, D.C. Law 19-169, § 23(e), 59 DCR 5567

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