CHAPTER 48. DOMESTIC RELATIONS.

ARTICLE 3. PROPERTY, RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES OF MARRIED WOMEN; HUSBAND AND WIFE.

§48-3-103. Voidable marriages.

The following marriages are voidable and are void from the time they are so declared by a judgment order of nullity:

(1) Marriages that are prohibited by law on account of either of the parties having a wife or husband of a prior marriage, when the prior marriage has not been terminated by divorce, annulment or death;

(2) Marriages that are prohibited by law on account of consanguinity or affinity between the parties;

(3) Marriages solemnized when either of the parties:

(A) Was mentally incompetent;

(B) Was afflicted with a sexually transmitted disease;

(C) Was incapable, because of natural or incurable impotency of the body, of entering into the marriage state;

(D) Was under the age of consent; or

(E) Had been, prior to the marriage and without the knowledge of the other party, convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment in excess of one year under the applicable law of this state, another state or the United States;

(4) Marriages solemnized when, at the time of the marriage, the wife, without the knowledge of the husband, was with child by some person other than the husband.