HRS 0572-0001 ANNOTATIONS

Part heading added by L 1984, c 79, §1.

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ANNOTATIONS ABOVE RELATE TO ARTICLE, CHAPTER, OR PART HEADING;

ANNOTATIONS BELOW ARE FOR SECTION ONLY.

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Effect of adoption. Parties who by adoption become uncle and niece not disqualified to intermarry. Att. Gen. Op. 62-49.

Common-law marriages invalid. Att. Gen. Op. 73-5.

If requirements of valid marriage met, validity not affected by absence of filed marriage certificate. Att. Gen. Op. 84-10.

For Better or for Worse, in Sickness and in Health, Until Death Do Us Part: A Look at Same Sex Marriage in Hawaii. 16 UH L. Rev. 447.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg And Gender Discrimination. 20 UH L. Rev. 699.

The Hawai`i Marriage Amendment: Its Origins, Meaning and Fate. 22 UH L. Rev. 19.

The Fine Line Between Love and the Law: Hawai`i's Attempt to Resolve the Same-Sex Marriage Issue. 22 UH L. Rev. 149.

Love and Let Love: Same-Sex Marriage, Past, Present, and Future, and the Constitutionality of DOMA. 22 UH L. Rev. 185.

The Defense of Marriage Act: Sex and the Citizen. 24 UH L. Rev. 279.

Common-law marriages invalid. 638 F. Supp. 1251.

Proof of marriage without record in civil cases. 1 H. 83; 1 H. 139; 4 H. 548; 26 H. 81. Presumption of validity. 29 H. 716. When destroyed. 34 H. 161; 35 H. 756.

Breach of contract to marry. 5 H. 540. Marriage by girl under fourteen only voidable. 6 H. 289.

Statute as to Chinese being already married held void. 3 H. 631.

If record of marriage introduced, not necessary to prove that license had been granted or that agent had authority to grant same. 10 H. 440. Or that celebrant had authority to solemnize. 10 H. 442.

No marriage without mutual consent. 8 H. 77; 12 H. 329; 28 H. 581. Corroboration. 25 H. 392, 394. License is prerequisite to a valid marriage. 25 H. 397; 295 F. 636. License presumed from fact of marriage. 16 H. 377; 16 H. 502.

This section's age requirement must be read with the requirements of §572-2. 26 H. 89. A property accumulated, putative marriage. 29 H. 770, rev. 27 F.2d 582.

Statute is presumed to be unconstitutional unless defendant, as agent of State, can show that statute's sex-based classification is justified by compelling state interests and statute is narrowly drawn to avoid unnecessary abridgments of applicant couples' constitutional rights. 74 H. 530, 852 P.2d 44.

Cited: 8 H. 77, 78; 44 H. 271, 273, 353 P.2d 631.