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Mississippi Annulment and Prohibited Marriage Laws
More Information on Annulment and Prohibited Marriage Laws
| Code Section | 93-1-1; 93-7-1-93-7-5 |
| Grounds for Annulment | Incurable impotency, insanity, or idiocy; incapable of consent from lack of understanding, force, fraud (unless ratified); pregnant by another man and husband did not know (unless ratified) |
| Time Limits for Obtaining Annulment | Insanity, lack of consent, pregnancy: Within 6 months of marriage |
| Legitimacy of Children | Void or annulled marriage's issue is legitimate, but issue of incestuous marriage is not |
| Prohibited Marriages | Bigamous and incestuous marriages are void (between ancestor and descendant, brother and sister, aunt and nephew, uncle and niece, first cousins by blood, daughter or son-in-law to father or mother-in-law). Marriage between persons of the same sex is prohibited and void. |
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