MASSACHUSETTS
Uniform Marriage Evasion Act
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 207, §§ 10-13
Massachusetts General Laws
. Part II. Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations
. . Title III. Domestic Relations
. . . Chapter 207. Marriage
§ 10. Foreign marriages; validity
If any person residing and intending to continue to reside in this commonwealth is disabled or prohibited from contracting marriage under the laws of this commonwealth and goes into another jurisdiction and there contracts a marriage prohibited and declared void by the laws of this commonwealth, such marriage shall be null and void for all purposes in this commonwealth with the same effect as though such prohibited marriage had been entered into in this commonwealth.
§ 11. Non-residents; marriages contrary to laws of domiciled state
No marriage shall be contracted in this commonwealth by a party residing and intending to continue to reside in another jurisdiction if such marriage would be void if contracted in such other jurisdiction, and every marriage contracted in this commonwealth in violation hereof shall be null and void.
§ 12. Legal ability of non-residents to marry; duty of licensing officer to ascertain
Before issuing a license to marry a person who resides and intends to continue to reside in another state, the officer having authority to issue the license shall satisfy himself, by requiring affidavits or otherwise, that such person is not prohibited from intermarrying by the laws of the jurisdiction where he or she resides.
The three preceding sections shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate their general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact like legislation.
[St. 1913, c. 360.]