SB111,1586,1919 753.06 (4) (a) Calumet County. The circuit has one branch 2 branches.

SB111,1586,2121 753.06 (7) (e) Jackson County. The circuit has one branch 2 branches.

SB111,1586,2323 753.06 (9) (g) Marathon County. The circuit has 5 6 branches.

SB111,1586,2525 753.06 (10) (f) Dunn County. The circuit has 2 3 branches.

SB111,1587,32 757.69 (1) (j) Hold hearings, make findings and issue temporary restraining
3orders under s. 813.122 or, 813.123 , or 813.124.

SB111,1587,55 757.69 (1m) (g) Make any dispositional order under s. 938.34 (4d), (4h), or (4m).

SB111,1587,88 757.69 (1m) (g) Make any dispositional order under s. 938.34 (4d) or (4m).

SB111,1588,210 765.001 (2) Intent. It is the intent of chs. 765 to 768 to promote the stability
11and best interests of marriage and the family. It is the intent of the legislature to
12recognize the valuable contributions of both spouses during the marriage and at
13termination of the marriage by dissolution or death. Marriage is the institution that
14is the foundation of the family and of society. Its stability is basic to morality and
15civilization, and of vital interest to society and the state. The consequences of the
16marriage contract are more significant to society than those of other contracts, and
17the public interest must be taken into account always. The seriousness of marriage
18makes adequate premarital counseling and education for family living highly
19desirable and courses thereon are urged upon all persons contemplating marriage.
20The impairment or dissolution of the marriage relation generally results in injury
21to the public wholly apart from the effect upon the parties immediately concerned.
22Under the laws of this state, marriage is a legal relationship between 2 equal
23persons, a husband and wife, who owe to each other mutual responsibility and
24support. Each spouse has an equal obligation in accordance with his or her ability
25to contribute money or services or both which are necessary for the adequate support

1and maintenance of his or her minor children and of the other spouse. No spouse may
2be presumed primarily liable for support expenses under this subsection.

SB111,1588,7 4765.01 A civil contract. Marriage, so far as its validity at law is concerned,
5is a civil contract, to which the consent of the parties capable in law of contracting
6is essential, and which creates the legal status of husband and wife spouse to each
7other.

SB111,1588,109 765.02 (3) Marriage may be contracted between persons of the same sex or
10different sexes.

SB111,1588,2212 765.03 (1) No marriage shall be contracted while either of the parties has a
13husband or wife spouse living, nor between persons who are nearer of kin than 2nd
14cousins except that marriage may be contracted between first cousins where the
15female has attained the age of 55 years or where if either party, at the time of
16application for a marriage license, submits an affidavit signed by a physician stating
17that either party is permanently sterile or that the 2 parties are otherwise
18permanently biologically incapable of producing a child together. Relationship
19under this section shall be computed by the rule of the civil law, whether the parties
20to the marriage are of the half or of the whole blood. A marriage may not be
21contracted if either party has such want of understanding as renders him or her
22incapable of assenting to marriage.

SB111,1589,424 765.16 (1m) (intro.) Marriage may be validly solemnized and contracted in this
25state only after a marriage license has been issued therefor, and only by the mutual

1declarations of the 2 parties to be joined in marriage that they take each takes the
2other as husband and wife his or her spouse, made before an authorized officiating
3person and in the presence of at least 2 competent adult witnesses other than the
4officiating person. The following are authorized to be officiating persons:

SB111,1589,96 765.16 (1m) (c) The 2 parties themselves, by mutual declarations that they
7take each takes the other as husband and wife his or her spouse, in accordance with
8the customs, rules, and regulations of any religious society, denomination, or sect to
9which either of the parties may belong.

SB111,1589,25 11765.23 Immaterial irregularities otherwise. No marriage hereafter
12contracted shall be void either by reason of the marriage license having been issued
13by a county clerk not having jurisdiction to issue the same; or by reason of any
14informality or irregularity of form in the application for the marriage license or in
15the marriage license itself, or the incompetency of the witnesses to such marriage;
16or because the marriage may have been solemnized in a county other than the county
17prescribed in s. 765.12, or more than 30 days after the date of the marriage license,
18if the marriage is in other respects lawful and is consummated with the full belief
19on the part of the persons so married, or either of them, that they have been lawfully
20joined in marriage. Where a marriage has been celebrated in one of the forms
21provided for in s. 765.16 (1m), and the parties thereto have immediately thereafter
22assumed the habit and repute of husband and wife a married couple, and having
23continued the same uninterruptedly thereafter for the period of one year, or until the
24death of either of them, it shall be deemed that a marriage license has been issued
25as required by ss. 765.05 to 765.24 and 767.803.