Is an illegal marriage void?

Barton Morfee: Your question is an oxymoron. If it's illegal...it's void. If it weren't it wouldn't be illegal.

Shaun Rapkowicz: Depends on the nature of the defect. If there's a fundamental problem - one of the spouses is already married, say, or is under age - then, yes, the marriage is void. Legally, it might as well never have been celebrated.But if the defect is minor - due to oversight, the spouses gave one day less notice than was required, or somebody was wrongly named on the paperwork, and nobody noticed this and the marriage was celebrated anyway, the courts will generally find that this is not the kind of defect that the state intended would make the marriage void....Show more

Esmeralda Pigram: The marriage is void. The minister has nothing to do with it.

Emilie Santmyer: they wouldn't be issued the marriage license in the first place.the minister has nothing to do with it.

Oscar Waddups: An untruth told to get he license voids it It! is considered a "void marriage"A void marriage is a marriage that is void and invalid from its very beginning. Such marriage is unlawful and requires no formality to terminate. A marriage shall be void if: •at the time of marriage either party was already lawfully married and the former spouse was still living at the time of the marriage and such former marriage was then in force;•a male person marries under eighteen (18) years of age or a female who is between sixteen (16) and eighteen (18) years of age marries without a special marriage license;•the parties are within the prohibited close family relationships; or•the parties are not respectively male and female.voidable marriage is a legal marriage that can be canceled at the option of one of the parties and it is subject to cancellation if contested in court. You can petition to the court for a decree of nullity to declare your marriage void on the following grounds: •the marriage has not been consummated due ! to the incapacity of either of you to consummate it;•the mar! riage has not been consummated owing to the willful refusal of your spouse to consummate it;•either of you did not validly consent to it, whether in consequence of duress, mistake, unsoundness of mind or otherwise;•at the time of marriage, either of you, though capable of giving a valid consent, was a mentally disordered person of such a kind or to such an extent as to be unfit for marriage;•at the time of the marriage, your spouse was suffering from venereal disease in a communicable form;•at the time of the marriage, your wife was pregnant by some person other than you....Show more