Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World Part 38

6. Conviction of felony.

Limited divorces are not granted.

TENNESSEE.

MARRIAGE.--The lowest age at which males can marry is 16 years, females 14 years. Parental consent is necessary for males under 21 years and females under 18 years.

CONSANGUINITY AND AFFINITY.--The prohibited degrees are the same as in Ma.s.sachusetts.

Marriages of whites with negroes, mulattoes or persons of mixed blood are forbidden. A person declared guilty of adultery is forbidden his or her accomplice during the lifetime of the former spouse.

FORMALITIES.--License necessary. Marriage ceremony may be religious or civil in form.

CAUSES FOR DIVORCE:

1. Natural impotence and incapacity of procreation at time of marriage, and still existing.

2. A previous marriage still subsisting.

3. Adultery.

4. Desertion for two years.

5. Conviction of such crime as renders party infamous.

6. Conviction of felony.

7. Malicious attempt on life of other spouse.

8. Wife's refusal to move with husband into this State, and wilful absence from him for two years.

9. Wife's pregnancy at time of marriage by another person, without husband's knowledge.

10. Habitual drunkenness.

LIMITED DIVORCES.--Such relief is granted to a wife only, for the following causes:

1. Cruel and inhuman treatment, rendering it unsafe and improper for continued cohabitation.

2. Such indignities offered to wife as render condition intolerable, and force her to leave husband.

3. Husband's abandonment of wife, or his turning her out of doors, refusing or neglecting to provide for her.

TEXAS.

MARRIAGE.--Earliest age for males to marry is 16 years; females 14 years.

Parental consent required for males under 21 years and females under 18 years.

IMPEDIMENTS.--The prohibited degrees of kinship are the same as in New York.

Marriage is forbidden between persons of European blood or their descendants and Africans or the descendants of Africans.

FORMALITIES.--License required. Marriage may be solemnized by religious or civil ceremony.

CAUSES FOR DIVORCE.--

1. Excesses; cruel treatment.

2. Wife taken in adultery.

3. Wife's abandonment of husband for three years.

4. Husband's desertion with intention of abandonment for three years.

5. When husband abandons wife and lives in adultery.

6. Conviction of felony and imprisonment therefor in State prison.

There is no such thing as a limited divorce in this State.

UTAH.

MARRIAGE.--Males may marry at 14 years and females at 12 years, but if the former are under 21 years and the latter under 18 years parental consent is required.

PROHIBITED DEGREES.--Marriage between ascendants and descendants, between brothers and sisters of the whole or half blood, between uncles and nieces, or aunts and nephews, or between any persons related to each other within the fourth degree of consanguinity is prohibited.

Marriage is also forbidden between a white person and a negro or Mongolian.

FORMALITIES.--After a license has been procured the marriage may be solemnized by a minister or priest, judge of the Supreme or District Court, mayor of a city, or justice of the peace.

CAUSES FOR DIVORCE.--

1. Impotency.

2. Adultery.

3. Wilful desertion for more than one year.

4. Wilful neglect of husband to provide for wife.

5. Habitual drunkenness.

6. Conviction for felony.

7. Cruel treatment.