Bill Text: MI SB0214 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Family law: marriage and divorce; action to annul a marriage based on legal age of consent; modify. Amends sec. 34 of 1846 RS 84 (MCL 552.34).
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-2)
Status: (Engrossed) 2023-06-22 - Referred To Committee On Criminal Justice [SB0214 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-SB0214-Engrossed.html
SENATE BILL NO. 214
A bill to amend 1846 RS 84, entitled
"Of divorce,"
by amending section 34 (MCL 552.34), as amended by 1983 PA 211.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 34. An action to annul a marriage on the ground that 1 of the parties was under the age of legal consent, as provided in section 3 of Act No. 128 of the Public Acts of 1887, being section 551.103 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, 1887 PA 128, MCL 551.103, may be brought by the parent or guardian entitled to the custody of the minor or by the next friend of the minor, but the marriage shall not be annulled on the application of a party who was of the age of legal consent at the time of the marriage. , or when it appears that the parties, after they had attained the age of consent, had freely cohabited as husband and wife.
