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It's not just Washington; this is basically the same as in Illinois, for instance. (I performed a wedding for friends this past summer in Chicago, so I investi
by blahedo 11y ago
It's not just Washington; this is basically the same as in Illinois, for instance. (I performed a wedding for friends this past summer in Chicago, so I investigated. :) The bit about validity is really a good idea, because it's a protection for the people getting married.
I think that something like this is true in most states, actually. The Universal Life Church wouldn't work if it weren't.
- bbanyc 11y agoIn New York, there's case law that ULC ministers don't meet the statutory qualifications for a marriage officiant, and therefore marriages in New York before ULC ministers are invalid. But the case in point involved a marriage outside the state, invalid under local law. The city clerk of NYC still registers ULC ministers as officiants and still accepts marriage licenses from them, so the case law is meaningless unless someone raises it in the divorce case.