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43 OK Stat § 43-7.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 43. Marriage and Family|§43-7.1. Refusal to solemnize or recognize marriage by religious organization officials - Definitions.

|A. No regularly licensed, ordained or authorized official of any religious organization shall be required to solemnize or recognize any marriage that violates the official's conscience or religious beliefs. A regularly licensed, ordained or authorized official of any religious organization shall be immune from any civil claim or cause of action based on a refusal to solemnize or recognize any marriage that violates the official's conscience or religious beliefs. |B. As used in this section:1. "Recognize" means to provide religious-based services that:a.are delivered by a religious organization or by an individual who is managed, supervised or directed by a religious organization, andb.are designed for married couples or couples engaged to marry and are directly related to solemnizing, celebrating, strengthening or promoting a marriage, such as religious counseling programs, courses, retreats and workshops; and2. "Religious organization" means any church, seminary, synagogue, temple, mosque, religious order, religious corporation, association or society, whose identity is distinctive in terms of common religious creed, beliefs, doctrines, practices or rituals of any faith or denomination, including any organization qualifying as a church or religious organization under Section 501(c)(3) or 501(d) of the United States Internal Revenue Code.Added by Laws 2015, c. 204, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2015.
43 OK Stat § 43-8 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 43. Marriage and Family|§43-8. Endorsement and return of license.

|A. The person performing or solemnizing the marriage ceremony shall, immediately upon the completion of the ceremony, endorse upon the license authorizing the marriage: |1. His or her name and official or clerical designation;2. The court of which he or she is the judge, or the congregation or body of which he or she is pastor, preacher, minister, priest, rabbi or dignitary; provided, that the authority to perform or solemnize marriages shall be coextensive with the congregation or body of which he or she is pastor, preacher, minister, priest, rabbi or dignitary; provided further, that all marriages solemnized among the society called Friends or Quakers, the spiritual assembly of the Baha’is, or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in the form heretofore practiced and in use in their meetings shall be good and valid. One person chosen by such society, assembly, or church shall be responsible for completing the marriage certificate pursuant to this section in the same manner as a minister or other person authorized to perform marriages;3. The town or city and county where the court, congregation, body, society, assembly, or church is located; and4. His or her signature along with his or her official or clerical designation.B. The witnesses to the ceremony shall endorse the marriage certificate, attesting to their presence at the ceremony, with their names and post office addresses.C. The persons who have been married in the ceremony shall endorse the marriage certificate with the names by which they are to be known from the time of the marriage, as evidenced on the marriage license.D. The marriage license, along with the completed marriage certificate shall be transmitted without delay to the judge or the court clerk who issued the license and certificate.R.L. 1910, § 3890. Amended by Laws 1971, c. 298, § 2, emerg. eff. June 24, 1971; Laws 1989, c. 333, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 1989; Laws 2006, c. 311, § 4, emerg. eff. June 8, 2006.
43 OK Stat § 43-9 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 43. Marriage and Family|§43-9. Records - Return of original.

|The judge or clerk of the district court issuing any marriage license shall make a complete record of the application, license, and certificate thereon, on an optical disc, microfilm, microfiche, imaging, in a book kept by the judge or clerk for that purpose, properly indexed, or by electronic means using any method approved by the Supreme Court; and the record of the license shall be made before it is delivered to the person procuring the same, and the record of the certificate shall be made upon the return of the license; provided, that all records pertaining to the issuance of such license shall be open to public inspection during office hours; provided further, that after recording of the original license and completed certificate as hereinbefore required, it shall be returned to the persons to whom the same was issued, with the issuing officer's certificate affixed thereon showing the book and page or case number where the same has been recorded. |R.L.1910, § 3891. Amended by Laws 1945, p. 139, § 1, emerg. eff. May 5, 1945; Laws 1947, p. 301, § 1, emerg. eff. April 24, 1947; Laws 1998, c. 310, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 1998; Laws 2005, c. 192, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 2005; Laws 2012, c. 278, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 2012.
43 OK Stat § 43-10 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 43. Marriage and Family|§43-10. Evidence before issue of license.

|If the judge or clerk of the district court before whom application for a marriage license is made shall be in doubt of the legal capacity of the parties for whose marriage a license is sought, to enter into the marriage relation, such judge or clerk shall require additional evidence to that contained in the application, and may swear and examine witnesses or require affidavits in proof of the legality of such marriage, and unless satisfied of the legality thereof, he shall not issue a license therefor. |R.L.1910, § 3892.
43 OK Stat § 43-11 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 43. Marriage and Family|§43-11. Copy of record - Admission as evidence.

|Copies of any record required to be made and kept by the judge of the district court under the provisions of this chapter, certified to by the judge of said court, under his official signature and seal, shall be received as evidence in all courts of this state. |R.L.1910, § 3893.
43 OK Stat § 43-14 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 43. Marriage and Family|§43-14. Penalty for performing unlawful marriage.

|Any minister of the Gospel, or other person authorized to solemnize the rites of matrimony within this state, who shall knowingly solemnize the rites of matrimony between persons prohibited by this chapter, from intermarrying shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) and imprisonment in the State Penitentiary not less than one (1) year nor more than five (5) years. |R.L. 1910, § 3896. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 461, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 335, eff. July 1, 1999.NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 461 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
43 OK Stat § 43-15 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 43. Marriage and Family|§43-15. Miscellaneous offenses - Penalties.

|Any judge of the district court, or clerk of the district court, knowingly issuing any marriage license, or concealing any record thereof, contrary to the provisions of this chapter, or any person knowingly performing or solemnizing the marriage ceremony contrary to any of the provisions of this chapter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than thirty (30) days nor more than one (1) year or by both such fine and imprisonment. |R.L.1910, § 3897.
43 OK Stat § 43-16 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 43. Marriage and Family|§43-16. Soliciting in or near court house or grounds prohibited.

|It shall be unlawful for any person to solicit directly or indirectly within any courthouse, premises or grounds or lots on which a courthouse may be located in any county within the State of Oklahoma for himself or for and on behalf of any minister of the Gospel or other person, the performance of a marriage ceremony. |Laws 1941, p. 169, § 1.
43 OK Stat § 43-17 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 43. Marriage and Family|§43-17. Punishment for violations.

|Any person violating this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) for the first conviction, and for any second or subsequent conviction by a fine of not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00). |Laws 1941, p. 170, § 2.
43 OK Stat § 43-18 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 43. Marriage and Family|§43-18. Injunction against violations.

|In addition to the penalty provided in Section 2 hereof for a violation of this act, a cause of action shall exist in favor of any citizen of any county, or in favor of the State of Oklahoma on the relation of the district attorney of any county where the offense is committed to apply to the district court of the county for an injunction restraining the violation of this act. |Laws 1941, p. 170, § 3.
43 OK Stat § 43-19 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 43. Marriage and Family|§43-19. Unlawful sales of papers or instruments relating to marriage licenses - Penalty.

|It shall be unlawful for the court clerk of any county of this state to sell, offer for sale, or permit the sale of any paper or instrument relating, directly or indirectly, to marriage licenses issued from the office of said court clerk except the license herein. Provided, any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than Ten Dollars ($10.00) nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than five (5) days nor more than ten (10) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. |Laws 1959, p. 127, § 2; eff. April 8, 1959.
43 OK Stat § 43-20 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 43. Marriage and Family|§43-20. Computation of time.

|The time within which an act is to be done, as provided for in Title 43 of the Oklahoma Statutes, shall be computed by excluding the first day and including the last day. If the last day is a legal holiday as defined by Section 82.1 of Title 25 of the Oklahoma Statutes, it shall be excluded. The provisions of this section are hereby declared to be a clarification of the law as it existed prior to the effective date of this act and shall not be considered or construed to be a change of the law as it existed prior to the effective date of this act. Any action or proceeding arising under Title 43 of the Oklahoma Statutes prior to the effective date of this act for which a determination of the period of time prescribed by this section is in question or has been in question due to the enactment of Section 20, Chapter 293, O.S.L. 1999, shall be governed by the method for computation of time as prescribed by this section. |Added by Laws 2000, c. 260, § 4, emerg. eff. June 1, 2000.
43 OK Stat § 43-36 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 43. Marriage and Family|§43-36. Issuance of license - Delivery to person officiating - Return to licensing authority.

|Marriage licenses shall be issued to all applicants who are entitled under the laws of the State of Oklahoma to apply for a marriage license and to contract matrimony. Any person obtaining a marriage license from the court clerk shall deliver the license, within ten (10) days from the date of issue, to the clergy or other qualified person who is to officiate before the marriage can be performed. The license issued shall be returned by the clergy or other qualified person who officiated the marriage to the licensing authority who issued the same within five (5) days succeeding the date of the performance of the marriage therein authorized. Any person or persons who shall willfully neglect to make such return within the time above required shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for each and every offense. |Added by Laws 1945, p. 138, § 6. Amended by Laws 2004, c. 333, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2005.
43 OK Stat § 43-101 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 43. Marriage and Family|§43-101. Grounds for divorce.

|The district court may grant a divorce for any of the following causes: |First. Abandonment for one (1) year.Second. Adultery.Third. Impotency.Fourth. When the wife at the time of her marriage was pregnant by another than her husband.Fifth. Extreme cruelty.Sixth. Fraudulent contract.Seventh. Incompatibility. Provided, however, where the interest of a child under eighteen (18) years of age is involved, the adult parties shall attend an educational program concerning the impact of divorce on children as provided in subsection B of Section 107.2 of this title.Eighth. Habitual drunkenness.Ninth. Gross neglect of duty.Tenth. Imprisonment of the other party in a state or federal penal institution under sentence thereto for the commission of a felony at the time the petition is filed.Eleventh. The procurement of a final divorce decree without this state by a husband or wife which does not in this state release the other party from the obligations of the marriage.Twelfth. Insanity for a period of five (5) years, the insane person having been an inmate of a state institution for the insane in the State of Oklahoma, or inmate of a state institution for the insane in some other state for such period, or of a private sanitarium, and affected with a type of insanity with a poor prognosis for recovery; provided, that no divorce shall be granted because of insanity until after a thorough examination of such insane person by three physicians, one of whom shall be a superintendent of the hospital or sanitarium for the insane in which the insane defendant is confined, and the other two to be appointed by the court before whom the action is pending, and any two of such physicians shall agree that such insane person, at the time the petition in the divorce action is filed, has a poor prognosis for recovery; provided, further, however, that no divorce shall be granted on this ground to any person whose husband or wife is an inmate of a state institution in any other than the State of Oklahoma, unless the person applying for such divorce shall have been a resident of the State of Oklahoma for at least five (5) years prior to the commencement of an action; and provided further, that a decree granted on this ground shall not relieve the successful party from contributing to the support and maintenance of the defendant. The court shall appoint a guardian ad litem to represent the insane defendant, which appointment shall be made at least ten (10) days before any decree is entered.R.L. 1910, § 4962. Amended by Laws 1947, p. 79, § 1, emerg. eff. Feb. 24, 1947; Laws 1953, p. 59, § 1; Laws 1955, p. 141, § 1, emerg. eff. March 3, 1955. Renumbered from § 1271 of Title 12 by Laws 1989, c. 333, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1989. Amended by Laws 2014, c. 428, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2014.
43 OK Stat § 43-102 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 43. Marriage and Family|§43-102. Residence of plaintiff or defendant.

|A. Except as otherwise provided by subsection B of this section, the petitioner or the respondent in an action for divorce or annulment of a marriage must have been an actual resident, in good faith, of the state, for six (6) months immediately preceding the filing of the petition. |B. Any person who has been a resident of any United States army post or military reservation within the State of Oklahoma, for six (6) months immediately preceding the filing of the petition, may bring action for divorce or annulment of a marriage or may be sued for divorce or annulment of a marriage.R.L. 1910, § 4963. Amended by Laws 1939, p. 2, § 1, emerg. eff. April 10, 1939; Laws 1957, p. 82, § 2; Laws 1961, p. 64, § 1, emerg. eff. Aug. 7, 1961; Laws 1965, c. 284, § 1, emerg. eff. June 24, 1965. Renumbered from § 1272 of Title 12 by Laws 1989, c. 333, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1989. Amended by Laws 2002, c. 400, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2002.
43 OK Stat § 43-103 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 43. Marriage and Family|§43-103. Venue for any action for divorce, annulment of a marriage or legal separation.

|A. The venue of any action for divorce, annulment of a marriage or legal separation may be in the following counties: |1. An action for divorce or annulment of a marriage may be filed in the county in which the petitioner has been a resident for the thirty (30) days immediately preceding the filing of the petition or in the county in which the respondent is a resident; provided, the action may be assigned for trial in any county within the judicial district by the chief judge of the district; and2. An action for legal separation may be brought in the county in which either party is a resident at the time of the filing of the petition.B. The court may, upon application of a party, transfer an action for divorce, annulment of marriage or legal separation at any time after filing of the petition to any county where venue would be proper under subsection A of this section if the requirements of subsection C or D of this section are met.C. The court shall grant a party’s application for change of venue when the other party is not a resident of this state at the time the application for change of venue is filed, or the plaintiff has departed from this state and has been absent for more than six (6) months preceding the date the application for change of venue is filed, and transfer is requested to the county where the applying party resides in this state.D. The court shall grant a party’s application for change of venue when the court determines that it is an inconvenient forum under the circumstances and the court in another county is a more appropriate forum consistent with the factors in subsection B of Section 551-207 of the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act after substitution of the word "county" for the word "state" in such section of the act, and transfer is requested to the county where the applying party resides in the state.Added by Laws 1971, c. 23, § 1, emerg. eff. March 22, 1971. Renumbered from § 1272.1 of Title 12 by Laws 1989, c. 333, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1989. Amended by Laws 1998, c. 310, § 7, eff. Nov. 1, 1998; Laws 2001, c. 308, § 1, emerg. eff. June 1, 2001; Laws 2002, c. 400, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2002.
43 OK Stat § 43-104 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 43. Marriage and Family|§43-104. Personal jurisdiction in certain divorce actions.

|A court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a person, whether or not a resident of this state, who lived within this state in a marital or parental relationship, or both, as to all obligations for alimony and child support where the other party to the marital relationship continues to reside in this state. When the person who is subject to the jurisdiction of the court has departed from the state, he may be served outside of the state by any method that is authorized by the statutes of this state. |Laws 1973, c. 21. § 2, emerg. eff. April 12, 1973. Renumbered from Title 12, § 1272.2 by Laws 1989, c. 333, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1989. ec=1>
43 OK Stat § 43-104.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 43. Marriage and Family|§43-104.1. District court referees.

|A. If funding is available, presiding judges of the district court may appoint court referees in their judicial districts to hear designated cases as assigned by the presiding judge. |B. Reasonable compensation for the referees shall be fixed by that presiding judge.C. A referee shall meet the requirements and perform their duties in the same manner and procedure as set forth in Sections 1-8-103 and 2-2-702 of Title 10A of the Oklahoma Statutes pertaining to referees appointed in juvenile proceedings.Added by Laws 2002, c. 400, § 9, eff. Nov 1, 2002. Amended by Laws 2009, c. 234, § 136, emerg. eff. May 21, 2009.
43 OK Stat § 43-105 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 43. Marriage and Family|§43-105. Petition and summons.

|A. A proceeding for dissolution of marriage, an annulment of a marriage, or a legal separation shall be titled "In re the Marriage of _______ and ______". |B. The initial pleading in all proceedings under this title shall be denominated a petition. The person filing the petition shall be called the petitioner. A responsive pleading shall be denominated a response. The person filing the responsive pleading shall be called the respondent. Other pleadings shall be denominated as provided in the Rules of Civil Procedure, except as otherwise provided in this section.C. The petition must be verified as true, by the affidavit of the petitioner.D. A summons may issue thereon, and shall be served, or publication made, as in other civil cases.E. Wherever it occurs in this title or in any other title of the Oklahoma Statutes or in any forms or court documents prepared pursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Statutes, the term “divorce” shall mean and be deemed to refer to a “dissolution of marriage” unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires.R.L. 1910, § 4964. Amended by Laws 1973, c. 262, § 6, operative July 1, 1973. Renumbered from § 1273 of Title 12 by Laws 1989, c. 333, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1989. Amended by Laws 2002, c. 400, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2002; Laws 2003, c. 302, § 1, emerg. eff. May 28, 2003.
43 OK Stat § 43-106 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 43. Marriage and Family|§43-106. Response.

|A. The respondent, in his or her response, may allege a cause for a dissolution of marriage, annulment of the marriage or legal separation against the petitioner, and may have the same relief thereupon as he or she would be entitled to for a like cause if he or she were the petitioner. |B. When new matter is set up in the answer, it shall be verified as to such new matter by the affidavit of the respondent.R.L. 1910, § 4965. Renumbered from § 1274 of Title 12 by Laws 1989, c. 333, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1989. Amended by Laws 2002, c. 400, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 2002; Laws 2003, c. 302, § 2, emerg. eff. May 28, 2003.