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AK Stat § 25.05.231 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 05. Alaska Marriage Code|Article 4. Forms, Records, and Reports.|Sec. 25.05.231. Reports of licenses issued.

The registrar may require reports of licenses issued upon forms to be furnished by the registrar.
AK Stat § 25.05.241 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 05. Alaska Marriage Code|Article 4. Forms, Records, and Reports.|Sec. 25.05.241. Fees.

The registrar shall establish marriage license fees and provide for accounting for and disposing of the fees.
AK Stat § 25.05.251 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 05. Alaska Marriage Code|Article 4. Forms, Records, and Reports.|Sec. 25.05.251. Relationship to Vital Statistics Act.

Nothing in this chapter repeals or abrogates any part of AS 18.50 (Vital Statistics Act). The records and requirements leading up to and including the issuance of the marriage license are included in the definition of “vital statistics” under AS 18.50. The registrar shall supply the necessary forms and instructions for the licensing officers.
AK Stat § 25.05.261 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 05. Alaska Marriage Code|Article 5. Solemnization.|Sec. 25.05.261. Who may solemnize.

(a) Marriages may be solemnized (1) by a minister, priest, or rabbi of any church or congregation in the state, or by a commissioned officer of the Salvation Army, or by the principal officer or elder of recognized churches or congregations that traditionally do not have regular ministers, priests, or rabbis, anywhere within the state; (2) by a marriage commissioner or judicial officer of the state anywhere within the jurisdiction of the commissioner or officer; (3) before or in any religious organization or congregation according to the established ritual or form commonly practiced in the organization or congregation; or (4) by an individual holding an elective public office in the state. (b) This section may not be construed to waive the requirements for obtaining a marriage license. (c) Nothing in this section creates or implies a duty or obligation on a person authorized to solemnize a marriage under (a)(1), (3), or (4) of this section to solemnize any marriage.
AK Stat § 25.05.271 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 05. Alaska Marriage Code|Article 5. Solemnization.|Sec. 25.05.271. Duty of officiating person before ceremony.

The officiating person shall determine that the parties presenting themselves to be married are the parties named in the license. If the officiating person knows of a legal impediment to the marriage, the officiating person may not perform the ceremony.
AK Stat § 25.05.281 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 05. Alaska Marriage Code|Article 5. Solemnization.|Sec. 25.05.281. Marriage solemnized by unauthorized person.

After a license has been obtained, a marriage solemnized before a person professing to be a person authorized to solemnize marriages in the state under AS 25.05.261(a) is valid regardless of a lack of power or authority in the person, if the marriage is consummated with a belief on the part of the persons so married, or either of them, that they have been lawfully joined in marriage.
AK Stat § 25.05.291 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 05. Alaska Marriage Code|Article 5. Solemnization.|Sec. 25.05.291. Civil and religious ceremonies.

When a religious ceremony between two parties follows a civil ceremony between them, one license is sufficient for both ceremonies.
AK Stat § 25.05.301 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 05. Alaska Marriage Code|Article 5. Solemnization.|Sec. 25.05.301. Form of solemnization.

In the solemnization of marriage no particular form is required except that the parties shall assent or declare in the presence of each other and the person solemnizing the marriage and in the presence of at least two competent witnesses that they take each other to be husband and wife. A competent witness for this purpose is a person of sound mind capable of understanding the seriousness of the ceremony. At the time of the ceremony, the person solemnizing the marriage shall complete the certification on the original marriage certificate. The person solemnizing the marriage and the two attending witnesses shall sign the original marriage certificate and the necessary copies.
AK Stat § 25.05.311 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 05. Alaska Marriage Code|Article 5. Solemnization.|Sec. 25.05.311. Marriage without solemnization.

A marriage contracted after January 1, 1964, is void unless the marriage has been solemnized as provided in this chapter. If the parties to a marriage void for failure to solemnize the marriage validate the marriage by complying with the requirements of this chapter, the issue of the void marriage are legitimate.
AK Stat § 25.05.321 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 05. Alaska Marriage Code|Article 5. Solemnization.|Sec. 25.05.321. Certificates.

The person solemnizing the marriage shall, on the forms provided by the bureau, complete two short-form certificates, and, after that person and the two witnesses have signed them, give one to each of the parties to the marriage. A church or congregation may design and furnish its own form for this purpose, containing as a minimum the items contained in the form furnished by the bureau. The original marriage certificate shall be filed as required by AS 18.50 (Vital Statistics Act) and regulations adopted under it. The person solemnizing the marriage shall complete the certificate as required and submit it to the local registrar within seven days of the date the marriage is solemnized.
AK Stat § 25.05.331 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 05. Alaska Marriage Code|Article 6. Penalties.|Sec. 25.05.331. Unlawful issuance or refusal of license.

A licensing officer who knowingly issues a marriage license knowing it to be in violation of the provisions of this chapter or who wilfully and wrongfully refuses to issue a license is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction is punishable by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by a fine of not more than $500, or by both.
AK Stat § 25.05.341 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 05. Alaska Marriage Code|Article 6. Penalties.|Sec. 25.05.341. Misrepresentation.

A person who misrepresents a fact required to be stated on the application for a license or a form related to it, or a licensing officer who issues a marriage license having reason to believe that any material fact has been misrepresented, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction is punishable by a fine of not more than $500.
AK Stat § 25.05.351 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 05. Alaska Marriage Code|Article 6. Penalties.|Sec. 25.05.351. Violation concerning marriage license application.

A licensing officer who refuses or neglects to keep a complete record of each application and of each marriage license issued, or who fails to keep marriage license applications open for inspection or examination by the public during office hours is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction is punishable by a fine of not more than $50. Each failure, neglect, or refusal constitutes a separate offense.
AK Stat § 25.05.361 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 05. Alaska Marriage Code|Article 6. Penalties.|Sec. 25.05.361. Unlawful solemnization of marriage.

A person who solemnizes a marriage without first receiving a proper marriage license from the parties as provided in this chapter or without the parties declaring to take each other as husband and wife, or without requiring the presence of two competent witnesses; or who solemnizes a marriage involving a person under the legal age of marriage without the consent of (1) the licensing official when authorized, or (2) the parents or guardian of the underaged person, being stated in the license; or who solemnizes a marriage knowing of any legal impediment thereto, or who solemnizes a marriage after the expiration of the license, or who falsely certifies to the date of a marriage solemnized by that person is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction is punishable by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by a fine of not more than $500, or by both.
AK Stat § 25.05.371 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 05. Alaska Marriage Code|Article 6. Penalties.|Sec. 25.05.371. Solemnization of marriage by unauthorized person.

A person not authorized by this chapter who wilfully or knowingly undertakes to solemnize a marriage in this state is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction is punishable by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by a fine of not more than $1,000, or by both.
AK Stat § 25.05.381 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 05. Alaska Marriage Code|Article 7. General Provisions.|Sec. 25.05.381. Definitions.

In this chapter, (1) “bureau” means the Bureau of Vital Statistics; (2) “department” means the Department of Health and Social Services; (3) “licensing officer” means the registrar or a local registrar; (4) “local registrar” means a person appointed by the state registrar under AS 18.50.080; (5) “registrar” means the state registrar of vital statistics.
AK Stat § 25.05.391 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 05. Alaska Marriage Code|Article 7. General Provisions.|Sec. 25.05.391. Short title.

This chapter may be cited as the Alaska Marriage Code.
AK Stat § 25.24.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage|Article 1. Divorce and Annulment.|Sec. 25.24.010. Right of action for divorce.

A husband or wife may maintain an action against the other for divorce or to have the marriage declared void.
AK Stat § 25.24.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage|Article 1. Divorce and Annulment.|Sec. 25.24.020. Void marriages.

A marriage which is prohibited by law on account of consanguinity between the persons, or a subsequent marriage contracted by a person during the life of a former husband or wife which marriage has not been annulled or dissolved is void.
AK Stat § 25.24.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage|Article 1. Divorce and Annulment.|Sec. 25.24.030. Voidable marriages.

A marriage may be declared void for any of the following causes existing at the time of the marriage: (1) that the party in whose behalf it is sought to have the marriage declared void was under the age of legal consent, and the marriage was contracted without the consent of the parents, guardian, or person having charge of that party, unless, after attaining the age of consent, the party for any time freely cohabited with the other as husband and wife; (2) that either party was of unsound mind, unless that party, after coming to reason, freely cohabited with the other as husband and wife; (3) that the consent of either party was obtained by fraud, unless that party afterwards, with full knowledge of the facts constituting the fraud, freely cohabited with the other as husband and wife; (4) that the consent of either party was obtained by force, unless that party afterwards freely cohabited with the other as husband and wife; (5) failure to consummate the marriage at the time of the marriage and continuing at the commencement of the action.
AK Stat § 25.24.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage|Article 1. Divorce and Annulment.|Sec. 25.24.040. Action to declare marriage valid.

When either the husband or wife claims or pretends that the marriage is void or voidable, the other spouse may bring an action to have the marriage declared valid. The court may determine if the marriage is void from the beginning or from the time of the judgment or that it is valid.
AK Stat § 25.24.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage|Article 1. Divorce and Annulment.|Sec. 25.24.050. Grounds for divorce.

A divorce may be granted for any of the following grounds: (1) failure to consummate the marriage at the time of the marriage and continuing at the commencement of the action; (2) adultery; (3) conviction of a felony; (4) wilful desertion for a period of one year; (5) either (A) cruel and inhuman treatment calculated to impair health or endanger life; (B) personal indignities rendering life burdensome; or (C) incompatibility of temperament; (6) habitual gross drunkenness contracted since marriage and continuing for one year prior to the commencement of the action; (7) [Repealed, § 68 ch 127 SLA 1974.] (8) incurable mental illness when the spouse has been confined to an institution for a period of at least 18 months immediately preceding the commencement of the action; the status as to the support and maintenance of the mentally ill person is not altered in any way by the granting of the divorce; (9) addiction of either party, subsequent to the marriage, to the habitual use of opium, morphine, cocaine, or a similar drug.
AK Stat § 25.24.070 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage|Article 1. Divorce and Annulment.|Sec. 25.24.070. Confession of adultery.

In an action for divorce on the ground of adultery, a confession of adultery is not alone sufficient to justify a judgment of divorce.
AK Stat § 25.24.080 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage|Article 1. Divorce and Annulment.|Sec. 25.24.080. Residence requirements for action to declare marriage void.

When a marriage has been solemnized and the plaintiff is a resident of the state, an action to declare the marriage void may be brought at any time.
AK Stat § 25.24.090 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage|Article 1. Divorce and Annulment.|Sec. 25.24.090. Use of spouse's residence.

Where one spouse is plaintiff in an action for divorce or to declare void a marriage that was not solemnized in the state, the residence of the other spouse in this state inures to the plaintiff's benefit and the action may be instituted if the other spouse is at the time of its commencement qualified as to residence to institute a similar action.
AK Stat § 25.24.110 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage|Article 1. Divorce and Annulment.|Sec. 25.24.110. Separate domicile or residence.

In an action for divorce, a spouse may acquire a separate residence or domicile from that of the other spouse without reference among other factors to misconduct or consent of the other spouse.
AK Stat § 25.24.120 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage|Article 1. Divorce and Annulment.|Sec. 25.24.120. Defenses to adultery.

In a divorce action for adultery, the following defenses may be made: (1) procurement; (2) connivance; (3) the act has been expressly forgiven or impliedly forgiven by the voluntary cohabitation of the parties after knowledge of the act; (4) the plaintiff is also guilty of adultery and without procurement or connivance of the defendant and not forgiven as provided in the defenses to adultery; or (5) the action has not been commenced within two years after the discovery of the act by the plaintiff.
AK Stat § 25.24.130 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage|Article 1. Divorce and Annulment.|Sec. 25.24.130. Defenses to other divorce grounds.

When the divorce action is for any of the grounds provided in AS 25.24.050(4)-(6), the defense of procurement or that the defendant has been expressly forgiven may be made. When the divorce action is for the ground provided in AS 25.24.050(3), the defense of procurement or that the defendant has been expressly forgiven or that the action was not brought within two years after conviction may be made.
AK Stat § 25.24.152 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage|Article 1. Divorce and Annulment.|Sec. 25.24.152. Children as dependents for tax purposes.

(a) In an action for divorce, dissolution, or to declare a marriage void, the court may not unconditionally grant to a noncustodial parent the right to claim a child as a dependent under federal income tax laws. The court may grant a noncustodial parent the right to claim a child as a dependent under federal tax laws for a tax year if the noncustodial parent satisfies the requirements of federal law and was not in arrears at the end of the tax year in an amount more than four times the monthly obligation under (1) a support order applicable to the child in cases where a payment schedule has not been established for payment of continuing support and accumulated arrears under the support order; or (2) a payment schedule if a payment schedule has been established for payment of continuing support and accumulated arrears under a support order applicable to the child. (b) In this section, “noncustodial parent” means the parent who has actual physical custody of the child for less time than the other parent.
AK Stat § 25.24.155 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage|Article 1. Divorce and Annulment.|Sec. 25.24.155. Reservation of issues.

(a) The court may not delay or reserve a custody decision under AS 25.24.150(f) or an issue of property division under AS 25.24.160(c) unless (1) each party, and the guardian ad litem if one has been appointed under AS 25.24.310, expressly agrees on the record to the delay or reservation; or (2) a party who moves for an order of delay or reservation shows good cause and the court finds that the interests of a party opposing the motion will not be jeopardized by the delay or reservation. (b) The court may not grant a motion under (a)(2) of this section if the court finds that granting the motion would (1) put the opposing party's interests substantially at risk due to the death of the other party before a final disposition of the marital property; (2) diminish the ability of the party opposing the motion to protect the value of assets not in the party's control; (3) not be in the best interests of each minor child whose custody would remain unresolved if the motion were granted; (4) have adverse tax consequences for the opposing party; or (5) have adverse consequences on the opposing party's ability to maintain existing health insurance coverage.
AK Stat § 25.24.165 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage|Article 1. Divorce and Annulment.|Sec. 25.24.165. Change of name in divorce or annulment.

(a) In a judgment in an action for divorce or action declaring a marriage void, the court may change the name of either of the parties. (b) If a party seeks a change of name to a name other than a prior name, the court shall set a date for hearing not less than 40 days after filing of the action. Notice of the application for a change of name to a name other than a prior name and the date of the hearing shall be published once each week for four consecutive calendar weeks before the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the judicial district. The court may also require posting of the notice at locations it considers appropriate. The court shall by judgment authorize the party to assume the new name not less than 30 days after issuance of the judgment, if the court is satisfied that no reasonable objection exists to assumption of the new name. Within 10 days after issuance of the judgment the party shall publish notice of the approval of the name change in a newspaper of general circulation in the judicial district. The court may also require the posting of a copy of the judgment.
AK Stat § 25.24.170 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage|Article 1. Divorce and Annulment.|Sec. 25.24.170. Modification of judgment.

(a) Subject to AS 25.20.110, any time after judgment the court, upon the motion of either party, may set aside, alter, or modify so much of the judgment as may provide for alimony, for the appointment of trustees for the care and custody of the minor children or for their nurture and education, for the care, nurture, and education of unmarried 18-year-old children of the marriage while they are actively pursuing a high school diploma or an equivalent level of technical or vocational training and living as dependents with a parent, guardian, or designee of the parent or guardian, or for the maintenance of either party to the action. (b) For the purposes of a motion to modify or terminate child support, the adoption or enactment of guidelines or a significant amendment to guidelines for determining support is a material change in circumstances if the guidelines are relevant to the motion. As necessary to comply with 42 U.S.C. 666, a periodic modification of child support may be made without a showing of a material change in circumstances if the child support order being modified on the periodic basis has not been modified or adjusted during the three years preceding the periodic modification.
AK Stat § 25.24.180 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage|Article 1. Divorce and Annulment.|Sec. 25.24.180. Effect of divorce.

The effect of a judgment decreeing a divorce is to restore the parties to the state of unmarried persons.
AK Stat § 25.24.232 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage|Article 2. Dissolution of Marriage.|Sec. 25.24.232. Children as dependents for tax purposes.

(a) Notwithstanding other provisions of AS 25.24.200 - 25.24.260, the court may not grant a final decree of dissolution that incorporates an agreement between the parties if the agreement unconditionally entitles a noncustodial parent to claim a child as a dependent under federal income tax laws. The court may incorporate into the decree of dissolution an agreement between the parties that entitles a noncustodial parent to claim a child as a dependent under federal tax laws for a tax year if the noncustodial parent satisfies the requirements of federal law and was not in arrears at the end of the tax year in an amount more than four times the monthly obligation under (1) a support order applicable to the child in cases where a payment schedule has not been established for payment of continuing support and accumulated arrears under the support order; or (2) a payment schedule if a payment schedule has been established for payment of continuing support and accumulated arrears under a support order applicable to the child. (b) In this section, “noncustodial parent” means the parent who has actual physical custody of the child for less time than the other parent.
AK Stat § 25.24.240 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations|Chapter 24. Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage|Article 2. Dissolution of Marriage.|Sec. 25.24.240. Effect and modification of decree.

(a) A decree of dissolution issued under AS 25.24.200 - 25.24.260 shall have the same force and effect as a decree granted under AS 25.24.010 - 25.24.180. (b) A decree of dissolution granted under AS 25.24.200 - 25.24.260 may be modified or enlarged as prescribed by AS 25.24.150 - 25.24.170.