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Connecticut Law About Marriage
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  Connecticut Public Acts

Pathfinders prepared by the Connecticut Judicial Branch law librarians:

§ 1. Who May Marry
§ 2. The Marriage License
§ 3. Who May Perform a Marriage

§ 4. The Marriage Ceremony
§ 5. Foreign and Out-of-state Marriages in Connecticut
§ 6. Common Law Marriage

Table 1  Blood Tests

Table 2  Proof of Valid Ceremonial Marriage

OLR Research Reports - Office of Legislative Research: 

Library Materials

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  • 7 Arnold H. Rutkin and Kathleen A. Hogan, Connecticut Practice Series, Family Law and Practice with Forms (1999). 
    • Chapter 3. Marriage Generally
 
  • P.A. 09-13 - An Act Implementing the Guarantee of Equal Protection Under the Constitution of the State for Same Sex Couples. [Bill Analysis]

    • To implement the decision of the Connecticut Supreme Court in Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health, provide for the recognition of marriages and relationships providing substantially the same rights, benefits and responsibilities entered into in another state or jurisdiction and provide for the merger of existing civil unions into marriages.

Connecticut Statutes

Selected Statutes:

MARRIAGE - Chapter 815e

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