Marriage in another state
Known as the Kentucky Sickle Cell Disease Detection Act
The act spans §§ 402–402 (37 sections).
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Love v. Beshear (2014)
Most recently applied in Love v. Beshear (July 2014)
Effective: July 15, 1998 History: Amended 1998 Ky
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) If any resident of this state marries in another state, the marriage shall be valid here if valid in the state where solemnized, unless the marriage is against Kentucky public policy.
(2) A marriage between members of the same sex is against Kentucky public policy and shall be subject to the prohibitions established in KRS 402.045.
Official source: Kentucky General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Kentucky statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.