A. Persons desiring to be married in this state shall submit an application in writing signed and sworn to in person before the clerk of the district court by both of the parties setting forth:
1. The place of residence of each party;
2. The full legal name and the age of each party as they appear upon or are calculable from a certified copy of the birth certificate, the current driver license or identification card, the current passport or visa, or any other certificate, license or document issued by or existing pursuant to the laws of any nation or of any state, or political subdivision thereof, accepted as proof of identity and age;
3. For each party, the full name by which the party will be known after the marriage as provided in subsection E of this section, which shall become the full legal name of the party upon the filing of the marriage license and certificate with the court, as required by law; provided, however, a marriage certificate issued prior to June 8, 2006, or any marriage certificate which contains an erroneous or misspelled name of a party, shall be reissued upon request by the certificate holder to include the information required by this paragraph. Such reissued certificate shall reflect the original marriage date and shall be signed by the court clerk with a notation by the clerk that the certificate is "reissued" or "amended". Signatures of the officiant and original witnesses shall not be required;
4. That the parties are not disqualified from or incapable of entering into the marriage relation; and
5. Whether the parties have successfully completed a premarital counseling program.
B. 1. Upon application pursuant to this section and the payment of fees as provided in Section 31 of Title 28 of the Oklahoma Statutes, if the clerk of the district court is satisfied of the truth and sufficiency of the application and that there is no legal impediment to such marriage, the court clerk shall issue the marriage license authorizing the marriage and a marriage certificate, which shall be incorporated as one document. As required by law, the marriage certificate shall be completed immediately following the marriage, and the marriage license and certificate shall be returned to the court clerk.
2. Parties to be married and who present a certificate to the clerk of the district court that states the parties have completed the premarital counseling program pursuant to Section 5.1 of this title shall be entitled to pay a reduced fee for a marriage license in an amount provided in Section 31 of Title 28 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
C. In the event that one or both of the parties are under legal age, the application shall have been on file in the court clerk's office for a period of not less than seventy-two (72) hours prior to issuance of the marriage license.
D. The marriage license shall be valid in any county within the state.
E. On the marriage certificate, the full name by which a party shall be known after marriage may be any combination of the legal first, middle, and last names, given names and surnames, of either party, including segments of names or initials, with or without hyphens. However, the marriage certificate shall not be used to change the name of a party to an entirely different name which is not derived from the legal name of either party. The party shall petition for a name change using the process established in Section 1631 of Title 12 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
F. The provisions hereof are mandatory and not directory except under the circumstances set out in the provisions of Section 3 of this title.
R.L.1910, § 3887. Amended by Laws 1959, p. 183, § 2, emerg. eff. June 2, 1959; Laws 1965, c. 25, § 1, emerg. eff. Feb. 26, 1965; Laws 1974, c. 96, § 1; Laws 1989, c. 64, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1989; Laws 1999, c. 174, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1999; Laws 2005, c. 33, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2005; Laws 2006, c. 311, § 2, emerg. eff. June 8, 2006; Laws 2008, c. 313, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2008; Laws 2013, c. 192, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2013; Laws 2022, c. 241, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2022.
Structure Oklahoma Statutes
§43-3.1. Recognition of marriage between persons of same gender prohibited.
§43-5. Application - Fees - Issuance of license and certificate.
§43-5.1. Premarital counseling.
§43-7. Solemnization of marriages.
§43-8. Endorsement and return of license.
§43-9. Records - Return of original.
§43-10. Evidence before issue of license.
§43-11. Copy of record - Admission as evidence.
§43-14. Penalty for performing unlawful marriage.
§43-15. Miscellaneous offenses - Penalties.
§43-16. Soliciting in or near court house or grounds prohibited.
§43-17. Punishment for violations.
§43-18. Injunction against violations.
§43-102. Residence of plaintiff or defendant.
§43-103. Venue for any action for divorce, annulment of a marriage or legal separation.
§43-104. Personal jurisdiction in certain divorce actions.
§43-104.1. District court referees.
§43-105. Petition and summons.
§43-107.2. Actions where minor child involved - Court-ordered educational program.
§43-107.4. Motion for an emergency custody hearing.
§43-108. Parties in equal wrong - Custody of children - Disposition of property.
§43-109.1. Custody during parents' separation.
§43-109.2. Paternity determination.
§43-109.3. Custody, guardianship or visitation cases - Evidence of domestic abuse.
§43-109.4. Grandparental visitation rights.
§43-109.5. Voluntary relinquishment of physical custody –Presumption.
§43-110. Automatic temporary injunction – Temporary orders.
§43-110.1. Shared parenting - Policy.
§43-110.1a. Oklahoma Child Supervised Visitation Program – Policy – Definitions.
§43-110.2. Blood, saliva, urine or any other tests – Child custody or visitation.
§43-111.1A. Standard visitation schedule – Advisory guidelines.
§43-111.2. Civil action for child stealing.
§43-112. Care and custody of children.
§43-112.1A. Definitions - Child support - Parental rights and duties – Actions and jurisdiction.
§43-112.2A. Parent's right to change child's residence.
§43-112.3. Notice of proposed relocation or change of residence.
§43-112.4. No duty to maintain stepchildren.
§43-112.6. Awarding of attorney fees and costs – Victim of domestic violence or stalking.
§43-112.7. Modification of custody - Military deployment.
§43-112A. Central case registry on IV─-D cases and child support orders.
§43-113. Preference of child – Record of interview.
§43-114. Interest on court-ordered past-due child support payments and payments of suit monies.
§43-115. Order for child support or modification of order - Provision for income assignment.
§43-116. Security, bond or other guarantee for child support.
§43-117. Modification, suspension or termination of order for income assignment.
§43-118. Child support guidelines.
§43-118.1. Review of child support orders - Disclosure of financial status.
§43-118.2. Employer sponsored health care coverage.
§43-118.3. Request for wage and tax information.
§43-118.4. Assignment or transfer of child support benefits – Attorney fees.
§43-118C. Deductions from gross income for qualified other children.
§43-118E. Parenting time adjustment - Reduction in child support obligation.
§43-118F. Medical support order for health care coverage.
§43-118G. Actual annualized child care expenses.
§43-118H. Deviation from guidelines child support amount.
§43-118I. Modification of child support orders.
§43-119. Computation of child support obligations.
§43-120.4. Report of decision.
§43-120.5. Fees - Appointment.
§43-120.7. Court expert - Procedures.
§43-121. Restoration of maiden or former name - Alimony - Division of property.
§43-123. Remarriage and cohabitation - Appeal from judgment.
§43-125. Validation of decrees annulling marriage or granting divorce.
§43-126. Remarriage within six months as ground for annulment.
§43-127. Time when judgments in divorce actions become final - Effect of appeal.
§43-128. Avoidance of marriage of incompetents.
§43-129. Alimony without divorce.
§43-131. Residency in divorce cases.
§43-133. Setting aside of divorce decrees upon petition of parties.
§43-135. Lien for arrearage in child support payments.
§43-139. Legal right to child support.
§43-140. Problem-solving court program - Participation by obligors of state child support plan.
§43-150. Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act.
§43-150.2. Custodial responsibility – Jurisdiction - Residency.
§43-150.3. Deployed parent - Exercise of visiting rights by third party.
§43-150.4. Deployment orders - Copy to nondeploying parent.
§43-150.6. Temporary custody orders - Deploying parent privilege.
§43-150.7. Permissible court orders.
§43-150.8. Court-ordered visitation - Appearance at hearing - Rebuttable presumptions.
§43-150.9. Notification of completion of deployment.
§43-150.10. Bad faith - Penalties.
§43-205. Relations cannot be altered by contract - Separation agreements.
§43-206. Mutual consent as consideration for separation agreement.
§43-207. Manner of holding property - Inventory of separate property.
§43-208. Liability for acts and debts of spouse - Curtesy and dower abolished.
§43-209.1. Joint and several liability of husband and wife.
§43-209.2. Parent's liability for value of child's necessaries.
§43-210. Liability on abandonment or separation by agreement.
§43-211. Management, sale or encumbrance of property of one by the other, when.
§43-212. Contracts binding on both - Liability for acts - Suits and proceedings.
§43-213. Order set aside, when.
§43-214. Rights of married women.
§43-413. Payment of support through registry.
§43-421. Authorization of public or private agencies to provide registry - Maximum fee.
§43-423. Court order for participation in registry program.
§43-424. Forms for petition and court order - Modification of visitation rights.
§43-425. Court to hear applications for participation in registry within certain time.
§43-551-103. Proceedings governed by other law.
§43-551-104. Application to Indian tribes.
§43-551-105. International application of act.
§43-551-106. Effect of child custody determination.
§43-551-108. Notice to persons outside state.
§43-551-109. Appearance and limited immunity.
§43-551-110. Communication between courts.
§43-551-111. Taking testimony in another state.
§43-551-112. Cooperation between courts; preservation of records.
§43-551-201. Initial child custody jurisdiction.
§43-551-202. Exclusive, continuing jurisdiction.
§43-551-203. Jurisdiction to modify determination.
§43-551-204. Temporary emergency jurisdiction.
§43-551-205. Notice; opportunity to be heard; joinder.
§43-551-206. Simultaneous proceedings.
§43-551-207. Inconvenient forum.
§43-551-208. Jurisdiction declined by reason of conduct.
§43-551-209. Information to be submitted to court.
§43-551-210. Appearance of parties and child.
§43-551-302. Enforcement under Hague Convention.
§43-551-304. Temporary visitation.
§43-551-305. Registration of child custody determination.
§43-551-306. Enforcement of registered determination.
§43-551-307. Simultaneous proceedings.
§43-551-308. Expedited enforcement of child custody determination.
§43-551-309. Service of petition and order.
§43-551-310. Hearing and order.
§43-551-311. Warrant to take physical custody of child.
§43-551-312. Costs, fees, and expenses.
§43-551-313. Recognition and enforcement.
§43-551-315. Role of district attorney.
§43-551-316. Role of law enforcement.
§43-551-317. Costs and expenses.
§43-551-401. Application and construction.
§43-551-402. Transitional provision.
§43-601-101. Short title - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act.
§43-601-103. Tribunals and support enforcement agency.
§43-601-104. Remedies cumulative.
§43-601-105. Application to support proceedings.
§43-601-201. Bases for jurisdiction over nonresident
§43-601-202. Duration of jurisdiction.
§43-601-203. Initiating and responding tribunal of this state.
§43-601-204. Simultaneous proceedings in another state or foreign country
§43-601-205. Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction - Controlling order
§43-601-206. Request for enforcement of order by tribunal of other state
§43-601-207. Determination of controlling order.
§43-601-208. Child support orders for two or more obligees.
§43-601-209. Credit for payments
§43-601-210. Receipt of evidence from outside the state - Applicable law
§43-601-301. Proceedings under this act.
§43-601-302. Action by minor parent.
§43-601-303. Application of law of this state.
§43-601-304. Duties of initiating tribunal
§43-601-305. Duties and powers of responding tribunal.
§43-601-306. Inappropriate tribunal.
§43-601-307. Duties of support enforcement agency
§43-601-308. Powers of Attorney General.
§43-601-310. Duties of state information agency.
§43-601-311. Petition - Contents and accompanying documents
§43-601-312. Sealing of information.
§43-601-314. Limited immunity of petitioner
§43-601-315. Nonparentage as defense.
§43-601-316. Special rules of evidence and procedure
§43-601-317. Communications between tribunals
§43-601-318. Assistance with discovery.
§43-601-401. Petition to establish support order.
§43-601-402. Responding tribunal.
§43-601-501. Recognition of income-withholding order issued in another state.
§43-601-502. Employer obligations.
§43-601-503. Two or more income-withholding orders.
§43-601-504. Employer's civil liability limited.
§43-601-505. Willful noncompliance
§43-601-506. Contest of order.
§43-601-507. Administrative enforcement of orders.
§43-601-601. Registration of order for enforcement.
§43-601-602. Procedure to register order for enforcement
§43-601-603. Effect of registration for enforcement.
§43-601-604. Law, procedures and remedies to be applied
§43-601-605. Notice of registration of order
§43-601-606. Procedure to contest validity or enforcement of registered order
§43-601-607. Contest of registration or enforcement
§43-601-609. Procedure to register child support order of another state for modification.
§43-601-610. Effect of registration for modification.
§43-601-611. Modification of child support order of another state
§43-601-612. Recognition of order modified in another state.
§43-601-613. Jurisdiction - Applicability of provisions
§43-601-614. Filing of modified child support order.
§43-601-616. Registration of foreign child support orders - Petition for modification.
§43-601-702. Application of article.
§43-601-703. Department of Human Services as designated agency.
§43-601-704. Duties of Department of Human Services
§43-601-706. Registration of support order.
§43-601-707. Contest of a registered convention support order.
§43-601-708. Recognition and enforcement of registered convention support orders - Exceptions
§43-601-709. Severability of convention support orders.
§43-601-710. Recognition and enforcement of registered foreign support agreements - Exceptions.
§43-601-711. Residency of obligee – Jurisdiction - Nonrecognition of order.
§43-601-712. Permissible uses of personal information.
§43-601-713. English translation.
§43-601-801. Grounds for rendition.
§43-601-802. Condition of rendition.
§43-601-901. Uniformity of application and construction.