Marriage law in the State of Texas requires the parties of the marriage to obtain a marriage license from a county clerk. Both the bride and groom are required to be present at the time of application. There is a 72 hour waiting period for the license and a $36 fee (minimum) payable in cash only to receive the license. Once the license has been issued it is valid for 30 days and can only be used within the State of Texas.
Minors under the age of 14 are not allowed to marry in Texas, however applicants age 16 to 18 must have parental consent or a court order in order to marry or receive a marriage license from the state. Applicants 14 to 16 must have a court order to marry.
The marriage can be officiated by a rabbi, an ordained/license Christian minister or priest, any religious societies authorized person, justice of the peace, retired justice of the peace, or judge or magistrate of a federal court of this state, , a justice of the supreme court, judge of the court of criminal appeals, justice of the courts of appeals, judge of the district, county, and probate courts, judge of the county courts at law, judge of the courts of domestic relations, judge of the juvenile courts, retired justice or judge of those courts.
Proxy marriages are allowed in the State of Texas. Same sex marriages, cousin marriages and other incestuous relation marriages are considered void by the state as per the marriage law code.
No but Cousin-Cousin is….
Yay! No queers allowed.
Boooooo, no queers allowed.
Is this really a texas state website?
How embarassing is it to have such retarded beliefs!!!!! SAME SEX marriage is NOT incestuous!
Do your homework Texas, read the dictionary!!!!
Gee, read the sentence again! They did not SPECIFY that same-sex is incestuous! Gee, man! Where’s your English 101 knowledge?
We do have a sodomy law and cannot allow sodomy in this state! You do realize that, queers or not, gay people weren’t designed for marriage? They weren’t designed to populate, have babies, or love one another. If anything, gay people alone on an island would de-populate to zero. And why is that? No kiddies to raise! You’d have to adopt!
Do your homework, man! Read the sentence again, again, and again! Make sure you know what they’re talking about. To me, they say ” same-sex marriages (not incestuous) marriages, cousin-cousin marriages (incestuous), and other incestuous marriages …”
Use your eyeeeeesssss, not your tallywhacker!
If you read this properly it reads: “Same sex marriage (comma) cousin marriages and OTHER incestuous relation marriages..” referring to the cousin marriage and other incestuous relations. It is NOT referring to same sex as being incestuous.
Yay! No queers allowed 😀
At Least Mina can read correctly…obviously Billy and Marie can’t….Go Texas…
See, that’s just one problem with gays. READ PEOPLE! It never called gays incestrious, there is a comma between cousins and gays. Whew! You people.
Dictionary.com defines incest as sexual impurity or sexual intercourse between closely related person (male to male, female to female are closely related). Now from my perspective, it includes fags.
Wow…some really hateful people. I agree that what’s written doesn’t necessarily imply that same-sex relationships are incestuous, but it could definitely be worded better. Jim’s logic is…how do I put it….REALLY DUMB. You might as well be against Anglo people marrying each other because they are genetically similar…inbred = incest, right? And Full: “READ PEOPLE!” I think you missed a comma in there…and “incestrious” is not a word.
Fighting for Same-Sex Marriage!!!
Equal Rights For ALL!!!!
GOT A PROBLEM WITH TEXAS MOVE TO NEW YORK…
This website is not ran by the State of Texas. Common law marriage is recognized by the State of Texas.
I’m a Texas born and breed, and do not think the way some of the ignorant folks above do. Its fairly obvious that some of them are the products of incestuous relationships.
Oops, meant to say Texan. Maybe I better check my family tree. lol
I’m a straight male but why not let gays and lesbians marry and go through the same crap as heterosexuals do when it comes time to divorce!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It won’t matter much longer! Texas’ Gay Marriage Ban will still be overturned and why? Because Texan voters have no right at all to vote on Marriage Rights of others! Thank Goodness you hateful people’s views no longer matter!
This is not an official Texas website. Same sex marriage and marriage within family members no matter how far removed is not allowed in Texas.
Same sex marriage now is taking place and us legal in 36 states. Like it or not, it’s coming toTexas. You can scream all you want bottom line it is coming no matter what the legislature tries to do to change the outcome. They are wasting Taxpayers money. Me that the good old boys oil money is running low, legislators might need to refocus the taxpayers money and it is used.
Sounds very stringent in my opinion.