AB68-SSA1,3031 3Section 3031. 753.06 (7) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,1393,44 753.06 (7) (e) Jackson County. The circuit has one branch 2 branches.
AB68-SSA1,3032 5Section 3032. 753.06 (9) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,1393,66 753.06 (9) (g) Marathon County. The circuit has 5 6 branches.
AB68-SSA1,3033 7Section 3033. 753.06 (10) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,1393,88 753.06 (10) (f) Dunn County. The circuit has 2 3 branches.
AB68-SSA1,3034 9Section 3034 . 757.69 (1) (j) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,1393,1110 757.69 (1) (j) Hold hearings, make findings and issue temporary restraining
11orders under s. 813.122 or, 813.123 , or 813.124.
AB68-SSA1,3035 12Section 3035 . 757.69 (1m) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,1393,1313 757.69 (1m) (g) Make any dispositional order under s. 938.34 (4d), (4h), or (4m).
AB68-SSA1,3036 14Section 3036 . 757.69 (1m) (g) of the statutes, as affected by 2021 Wisconsin
15Act .... (this act), is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,1393,1616 757.69 (1m) (g) Make any dispositional order under s. 938.34 (4d) or (4m).
AB68-SSA1,3037 17Section 3037 . 765.001 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,1394,1018 765.001 (2) Intent. It is the intent of chs. 765 to 768 to promote the stability
19and best interests of marriage and the family. It is the intent of the legislature to
20recognize the valuable contributions of both spouses during the marriage and at
21termination of the marriage by dissolution or death. Marriage is the institution that
22is the foundation of the family and of society. Its stability is basic to morality and
23civilization, and of vital interest to society and the state. The consequences of the
24marriage contract are more significant to society than those of other contracts, and
25the public interest must be taken into account always. The seriousness of marriage

1makes adequate premarital counseling and education for family living highly
2desirable and courses thereon are urged upon all persons contemplating marriage.
3The impairment or dissolution of the marriage relation generally results in injury
4to the public wholly apart from the effect upon the parties immediately concerned.
5Under the laws of this state, marriage is a legal relationship between 2 equal
6persons, a husband and wife, who owe to each other mutual responsibility and
7support. Each spouse has an equal obligation in accordance with his or her ability
8to contribute money or services or both which are necessary for the adequate support
9and maintenance of his or her minor children and of the other spouse. No spouse may
10be presumed primarily liable for support expenses under this subsection.
AB68-SSA1,3038 11Section 3038 . 765.01 of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,1394,15 12765.01 A civil contract. Marriage, so far as its validity at law is concerned,
13is a civil contract, to which the consent of the parties capable in law of contracting
14is essential, and which creates the legal status of husband and wife spouse to each
15other
.
AB68-SSA1,3039 16Section 3039 . 765.02 (3) of the statutes is created to read:
AB68-SSA1,1394,1817 765.02 (3) Marriage may be contracted between persons of the same sex or
18different sexes.
AB68-SSA1,3040 19Section 3040 . 765.03 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,1395,520 765.03 (1) No marriage shall be contracted while either of the parties has a
21husband or wife spouse living, nor between persons who are nearer of kin than 2nd
22cousins except that marriage may be contracted between first cousins where the
23female has attained the age of 55 years or where
if either party, at the time of
24application for a marriage license, submits an affidavit signed by a physician stating
25that either party is permanently sterile or that the 2 parties are otherwise

1permanently biologically incapable of producing a child together
. Relationship
2under this section shall be computed by the rule of the civil law, whether the parties
3to the marriage are of the half or of the whole blood. A marriage may not be
4contracted if either party has such want of understanding as renders him or her
5incapable of assenting to marriage.
AB68-SSA1,3041 6Section 3041 . 765.16 (1m) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,1395,127 765.16 (1m) (intro.) Marriage may be validly solemnized and contracted in this
8state only after a marriage license has been issued therefor, and only by the mutual
9declarations of the 2 parties to be joined in marriage that they take each takes the
10other as husband and wife his or her spouse, made before an authorized officiating
11person and in the presence of at least 2 competent adult witnesses other than the
12officiating person. The following are authorized to be officiating persons:
AB68-SSA1,3042 13Section 3042 . 765.16 (1m) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,1395,1714 765.16 (1m) (c) The 2 parties themselves, by mutual declarations that they
15take
each takes the other as husband and wife his or her spouse, in accordance with
16the customs, rules, and regulations of any religious society, denomination, or sect to
17which either of the parties may belong.
AB68-SSA1,3043 18Section 3043 . 765.23 of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,1396,8 19765.23 Immaterial irregularities otherwise. No marriage hereafter
20contracted shall be void either by reason of the marriage license having been issued
21by a county clerk not having jurisdiction to issue the same; or by reason of any
22informality or irregularity of form in the application for the marriage license or in
23the marriage license itself, or the incompetency of the witnesses to such marriage;
24or because the marriage may have been solemnized in a county other than the county
25prescribed in s. 765.12, or more than 30 days after the date of the marriage license,

1if the marriage is in other respects lawful and is consummated with the full belief
2on the part of the persons so married, or either of them, that they have been lawfully
3joined in marriage. Where a marriage has been celebrated in one of the forms
4provided for in s. 765.16 (1m), and the parties thereto have immediately thereafter
5assumed the habit and repute of husband and wife a married couple, and having
6continued the same uninterruptedly thereafter for the period of one year, or until the
7death of either of them, it shall be deemed that a marriage license has been issued
8as required by ss. 765.05 to 765.24 and 767.803.
AB68-SSA1,3044 9Section 3044 . 765.24 of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,1396,23 10765.24 Removal of impediments to subsequent marriage. If a person
11during the lifetime of a husband or wife spouse with whom the marriage is in force,
12enters into a subsequent marriage contract in accordance with s. 765.16, and the
13parties thereto live together thereafter as husband and wife a married couple, and
14such subsequent marriage contract was entered into by one of the parties in good
15faith, in the full belief that the former husband or wife spouse was dead, or that the
16former marriage had been annulled, or dissolved by a divorce, or without knowledge
17of such former marriage, they the parties shall, after the impediment to their
18marriage has been removed by the death or divorce of the other party to such former
19marriage, if they continue to live together as husband and wife a married couple in
20good faith on the part of one of them, be held to have been legally married from and
21after the removal of such impediment and the issue of any children born during such
22subsequent marriage shall be considered as the marital issue children of both
23parents parties.
AB68-SSA1,3045 24Section 3045 . 765.30 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read: