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V.I. Code tit. 15, § 5-432 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 15 - Virgin Islands Uniform Probate and Fiduciary Relations Code|Article V - Protection of Persons Under Disability and Their Property|Part 4 - Protection of Property of Protected Person|§ 5-432. Payment of debt and delivery of property to foreign conservator without local proceeding

 (a) A person who is indebted to or has the possession of tangible or intangible property of a protected person may pay the debt or deliver the property to a foreign conservator, guardian of the estate, or other court-appointed fiduciary of the State of residence of the protected person. Payment or delivery may be made only upon proof of appointment and presentation of an affidavit made by or on behalf of the fiduciary stating that a protective proceeding relating to the protected person is not pending in the Virgin Islands and the foreign fiduciary is entitled to payment or to receive delivery. (b) Payment or delivery in accordance with subsection (a) discharges the debtor or possessor, absent knowledge of any protective proceeding pending in the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 15, § 5-433 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 15 - Virgin Islands Uniform Probate and Fiduciary Relations Code|Article V - Protection of Persons Under Disability and Their Property|Part 4 - Protection of Property of Protected Person|§ 5-433. Foreign conservator; proof of authority; bond; powers

 If a conservator has not been appointed in the Virgin Islands and a petition in a protective proceeding is not pending in the Virgin Islands, a conservator appointed in the jurisdiction in which the protected person resides may file in a court of the Virgin Islands, in a judicial division in which property belonging to the protected person is located, authenticated copies of letters of appointment and of any bond. Thereafter, the conservator may exercise all powers of a conservator appointed in the Virgin Islands as to property in the Virgin Islands and may maintain actions and proceedings in the Virgin Islands subject to any conditions otherwise imposed upon nonresident parties.
V.I. Code tit. 15, § 5-434 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 15 - Virgin Islands Uniform Probate and Fiduciary Relations Code|Article V - Protection of Persons Under Disability and Their Property|Part 4 - Protection of Property of Protected Person|§ 5-434. Applicability; construction

 (a) Article V, parts 1-4 apply to guardianship proceedings commenced on or after their effective date. (b) This article must be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policy and to make uniform the laws with respect to the subject of this article among the jurisdictions enacting it. (c) Unless displaced by the particular provisions of this article, the principles of law and equity supplement its provisions.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 1 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter I - Marriages|§ 1. Void marriages

 (a) A marriage is prohibited and void from the beginning, without being so decreed and its nullity may be shown in any collateral proceeding, when it is between— (1) a man and his grandmother, grandfather's wife, wife's grandmother, father's sister, mother's sister, mother, stepmother, wife's mother, daughter, wife's daughter, son's wife, sister, son's daughter, daughter's daughter, son's son's wife, daughter's son's wife, wife's son's daughter, wife's daughter's daughter, brother's daughter or sister's daughter; (2) a woman and her grandfather, grandmother's husband, husband's grandfather, father's brother, mother's brother, father, stepfather, husband's father, son, husband's son, daughter's husband, brother, son's son, daughter's son, son's daughter's husband, daughter's daughter's husband, husband's son's son, husband's daughter's son, brother's son or sister's son; or (3) any persons either of whom has been previously married and whose previous marriage has not been terminated by death or a decree of divorce. (b) Any of such marriages may also be declared to have been null and void by judicial decree.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 2 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter I - Marriages|§ 2. Voidable marriages

 A marriage is illegal and shall be void from the time its nullity is declared by decree, if either party thereto— (1) is an idiot or a person adjudged a lunatic; (2) has consented thereto by reason of fraud or force; (3) is incapable, from physical causes, of entering into the marriage itself; or (4) is under the age of consent, which is hereby declared to be 16 years of age for males and 14 years for females.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 3 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter I - Marriages|§ 3. Institution of proceeding to declare marriage null

 (a) A proceeding to declare the nullity of a marriage may be instituted in the case of— (1) an infant under the age of consent by such infant, through a next friend, or by the parents or guardian of such infant; or (2) an idiot or lunatic by next friend. (b) No proceeding to declare the nullity of a marriage may be instituted by a person who, being fully capable of contracting a marriage, has knowingly and willfully contracted any marriage declared illegal by sections 1 and 2 of this title.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 4 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter I - Marriages|§ 4. Entering into prohibited marriages outside the Virgin Islands

 If any marriage declared illegal by sections 1 and 2 of this title is entered into in another jurisdiction by persons having and retaining their domicile in the Virgin Islands, such marriage shall be deemed illegal, and may be decreed void in the same manner as if it had been celebrated within the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 31 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter II - Solemnization, Proof and Effect of Marriages|§ 31. Nature of marriage

 Marriage is hereby declared to be a civil contract which may be entered into between a male and a female in accordance with law.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 32 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter II - Solemnization, Proof and Effect of Marriages|§ 32. Persons solemnizing marriage

 No marriage shall be valid unless solemnized by— (1) a clergyman or minister of any religion whether he resides in the Virgin Islands or elsewhere in the United States; or (2) witnessed by a Local Spiritual Assembly of the Bahai is according to the usage of their religious community; or (3) any judge or any court of record.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 33 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter II - Solemnization, Proof and Effect of Marriages|§ 33. Solemnization of marriage by unauthorized person; penalty

 Whoever, not being a person authorized by section 32 of this title, solemnizes the rites of marriage in the Virgin Islands, shall be fined not more than $500.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 34 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter II - Solemnization, Proof and Effect of Marriages|§ 34. Solemnizing marriage without a license; penalty

 Whoever, being authorized by section 32 of this title to solemnize marriages, solemnizes a marriage without first having had delivered to him a license addressed to him, issued by the clerk of the Superior Court and authorizing the marriage, shall be fined not more than $500.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 35 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter II - Solemnization, Proof and Effect of Marriages|§ 35. Examination of applicants for marriage license

 (a) The clerk of the Superior Court, before issuing any license to solemnize a marriage, shall examine the applicants therefor under oath, and ascertain with respect to each such applicant— (1) the full name, and age at last birthday; (2) date and place of birth; (3) nationality, and usual residence; (4) names of parents or guardian, if the applicant is under age; (5) previous marital status (never married, widowed, divorced, marriage annulled); and (6) whether related to the other applicant, and if so in what degree. (b) The facts required by subsection (a) of this section shall appear in writing on the face of the application. Application forms shall be printed, and shall be supplied by the court. (c) Any false statements in regard to the matters required by subsection (a) of this section or to any other matters called for on the application for a marriage license, shall be perjury.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 36 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter II - Solemnization, Proof and Effect of Marriages|§ 36. Consent of parents or guardians required

 If upon the examination prescribed by section 35 of this title, it appears that the male or female applicant is under 18 years of age and has not been previously married, the court shall not issue a license unless the father of such person, or if there be no father, the mother, or if there be no father or mother, the guardian, shall consent to such proposed marriage, either personally or in court, or by an instrument in writing attested by a witness and proved to the satisfaction of the court.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 37 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter II - Solemnization, Proof and Effect of Marriages|§ 37. Posting of application

 (a) Before any marriage license is issued, the application for such license shall be posted for public examination in the office of the clerk of the court for 8 days. (b) In special cases, however, the court may issue a license without the posting required by subsection (a) of this section.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 38 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter II - Solemnization, Proof and Effect of Marriages|§ 38. Issuance of marriage license; form

 (a) If it appears from the examination required by section 35 of this title that the parties are legally competent to marry, and if the provisions of sections 36 and 37 of this title, should they be applicable, have been complied with, the Superior Court shall issue a license addressed to some particular minister, judge or other person authorized to solemnize marriage, which shall be in the following form:Number To  authorized to celebrate marriage in the Virgin Islands, Greeting:You are hereby authorized to celebrate the rites of marriage between  of  and  of , and having done so, you are commanded to make return of same to this court within ten days under a penalty of $50 for default therein. This license is valid for three months only.Witness my hand and Seal of the Superior Court of  this  day of  Anno Domini ., Judge. (b) Said return shall be made in person or by mail on a coupon issued with said license and bearing a corresponding number therewith within ten days from the time of the marriage, and shall be in the following form:Number I,  who have been duly authorized to celebrate the rites of marriage in the Virgin Islands, do hereby certify that, by authority of a license of corresponding number herewith, I solemnized the marriage of  and  named therein, on the  day of  at  in the Virgin Islands. (c) A second coupon, of corresponding number with the license, shall be attached to and issued with the license, to be given to the contracting parties by the minister or other person to whom such license was addressed, and shall be in the following form:Number I hereby certify that on this  day of  at ,  and  were by me united in marriage in accordance with the license issued by the Superior Court of . (d) The forms prescribed in subsections (b) and (c) of this section shall be signed and dated by the persons executing them.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 39 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter II - Solemnization, Proof and Effect of Marriages|§ 39. Fees

  The following fees shall be charged: (a) Marriage license including notarization of application$100.00(b) Marriage by judge$400.00(c) Marriage license application$100.00(d) Such fees shall be paid over to the Treasury of the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 40 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter II - Solemnization, Proof and Effect of Marriages|§ 40. Failure to make return of marriage

 Whoever, having solemnized the rites of marriage under authority of a license issued pursuant to section 38 of this title, fails to make return as therein required, shall be fined not more than $50.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 41 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter II - Solemnization, Proof and Effect of Marriages|§ 41. Records to be maintained by Superior Court

 (a) Each Superior Court shall provide a record book consisting of applications and licenses in blank, to be filled up with information on the parties for whose marriages any licenses are issued. The applications and licenses shall be numbered consecutively from “1” upwards. (b) The Superior Court shall also keep a record book in which shall be recorded, in the order of their numbers, the certificates of the ministers or other persons authorized, upon their returns to the court, corresponding to the record book of licenses issued. (c) A copy of any license and certificate of marriage so kept and recorded, certified by the judge or the clerk of the Superior Court under his hand and the seal of the court, shall be competent evidence of the marriage.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 61 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter III - Rights and Duties of Husband and Wife|§ 61. Name of wife

 The wife shall bear the surname of her husband.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 62 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter III - Rights and Duties of Husband and Wife|§ 62. Interest in property of spouse

 When property is owned by either husband or wife, the other has no such interest as will make the same liable for the contract or liabilities of either the husband or wife who is not the owner of property, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 63 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter III - Rights and Duties of Husband and Wife|§ 63. Interspousal immunity abolished

 The common law doctrine of interspousal immunity is hereby declared to be abolished and either spouse may sue and be sued, not only free from the other spouse's participation and control, but they also may sue one another for injuries to person or property to the same extent and manner as if unmarried.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 64 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter III - Rights and Duties of Husband and Wife|§ 64. Conveyances, transfers and liens between spouses

 A conveyance, transfer or lien executed by either husband or wife to or in favor of the other, shall be valid to the same extent as between other persons.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 65 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter III - Rights and Duties of Husband and Wife|§ 65. Appointing spouse as attorney

 A husband or wife may constitute the other his or her attorney in fact, to control or dispose of his or her property and may revoke the same to the same extent and manner as other persons.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 66 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter III - Rights and Duties of Husband and Wife|§ 66. Liability of spouse for debts of the other

 Neither spouse is liable for the debts or liabilities of the other incurred before marriage, and, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, they are not liable for the separate debts of each other nor is the rent or income of property of either liable for the separate debts of the other.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 67 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter III - Rights and Duties of Husband and Wife|§ 67. Separate estates

 The husband and wife shall have the right to manage and dispose of their respective estates, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 68 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter III - Rights and Duties of Husband and Wife|§ 68. Separate property of wife

 The property and pecuniary rights of every married woman at the time of her marriage or afterwards acquired by gift, devise, or inheritance shall not be subject to the debts or contracts of her husband, and she may manage, sell, convey or devise the same by will to the same extent and in the same manner that her husband can property belonging to him.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 69 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter III - Rights and Duties of Husband and Wife|§ 69. Property acquired by labor of wife

 The property, either real or personal, acquired by any married woman during coverture by her own labor shall not be liable for the debts, contracts, or liabilities of her husband, but shall in all respects be subject to the same exemptions and liabilities as property owned at the time of her marriage or afterwards acquired by gift, devise or inheritance.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 70 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter III - Rights and Duties of Husband and Wife|§ 70. Liability for civil injuries committed by married woman

 For all civil injuries committed by a married woman damages may be recovered from her alone, and her husband shall not be responsible therefor, except in case where he would be jointly responsible with her if the marriage did not exist.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 71 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter III - Rights and Duties of Husband and Wife|§ 71. Contracts and liabilities of wife

 Contracts may be made by a wife, and liabilities incurred, and the same enforced by or against her to the same extent and in the same manner as if she were unmarried.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 81 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter IV - Vesper Marriage|§ 81. Definition

 A vesper marriage is a civil contract by and between two competent persons of opposite sex, each of whom shall have attained the age of sixty years, by which the parties agree to live together in the relationship of husband and wife without acquiring any interest in or claim upon the marital estate, property and income of the other and without any legal right of inheritance, one from the other, in accordance with provisions and conditions of this subchapter.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 82 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter IV - Vesper Marriage|§ 82. Application for and issuance of license

 (a) Upon a form to be provided by the clerk, the parties may apply to the Superior Court for a license to contract a vesper marriage. The application form shall contain the following statements: (1) That each of the parties has attained the age of sixty years; (2) That each of the parties is free to marry and is not married to any other living person, and (3) That each party acknowledges that, upon contracting a vesper marriage, he or she forever renounces all right, interest and claim of right or interest in the estate of his or her intended spouse except as herein provided. (b) Each of the parties applicant shall execute the application in the presence of the clerk or his deputy and shall acknowledge before such officer that he or she does so freely and with full understanding of the content of the application. (c) If satisfied that the parties are legally competent to be married, a judge of the Superior Court shall issue, upon payment of a fee of $50.00 by the applicant, a license authorizing any qualified officer to perform the marriage ceremony and issue a Certificate of Vesper Marriage.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 83 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter IV - Vesper Marriage|§ 83. Qualification of officer performing ceremony and issuance of certificate; fee; time limitation

 (a) The clerk, his deputy, any ordained minister of an established church or any officer authorized by law of the Virgin Islands to administer oaths and take acknowledgments is qualified to perform a Vesper Marriage Ceremony. (b) Upon the performance of a vesper marriage the officer or minister shall issue a Certificate of Vesper Marriage, drawn upon a form furnished by the clerk, certifying that the parties have been joined in vesper marriage upon the date stated in the certificate. The original of the certificate shall be handed to the parties and a copy shall be delivered forthwith to the Superior Court for filing. Failure of the officer to deliver a copy of the certificate for filing shall be punishable as a misdemeanor with the maximum fine of $100.00. (c) If the license is not exercised within ten days after its issuance it shall be null and void. (d) If the marriage ceremony is performed by a judge or the clerk of the Superior Court, the clerk shall collect a fee of $50.00. All fees collected under this subchapter shall be covered into the Treasury of the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 84 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 1 - Marriage|Subchapter IV - Vesper Marriage|§ 84. Rights and privileges; obligations; taxation and pension exception

 (a) Couples joined in vesper marriage are entitled to and shall enjoy all of the rights and privileges afforded married couples generally, except as otherwise provided herein and as pertains to taxation and the receipt of pension benefits. (b) Each party to a vesper marriage shall owe to the other the duties and obligations of care, maintenance and support so long as the parties cohabit. These duties and obligations shall cease in the event that the parties shall separate one from the other and discontinue cohabitation, except as otherwise provided herein. (c) For purpose of taxation and the receipt of pension benefits, parties to a vesper marriage shall be considered and treated as single persons as though they had not entered into the marriage contract.