Marriage By Proxy
Wedded bliss. Some achieve it, some don’t. We hear a lot about what you should do when you’re planning a wedding – from centerpiece ideas to prenuptial agreements – but we don’t hear much about the weird marriage-related laws that nobody bothered to repeal. In this case, there is a reason nobody repealed it – people still use it!
Marriage By Proxy
Reportedly, in Montana two people can get hitched even if they don’t show up to the ceremony. A website that facilitates this even today. Montana, indeed has a law where both parties can wed without appearing, but Texas, Colorado, and California have a law where only one person has to show up. In California, the only people who can do this are military personnel who are deployed and their intended.
This law came about in Montana back in the mid-1800′s when there were a bunch of miners moving into the mining towns. They still wanted to marry their fiances, but it was hard to get around back then, so Montana enacted this law so they could. I guess, even if a guy wanted to stay in the mines all day while his sweetie was back in Ohio or something he could – the double proxy law meant that neither party had to be present.
Today this law is mainly used for armed forces members who are deployed. Why they wouldn’t want to wait to do it in person, I don’t know, but since there is a service out there that facilitates this type of thing, I guess it’s more common than you would think.
Watch out, however, if you are from Iowa. Iowa does not recognize a proxy marriage.
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