Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, Title 23 (Domestic Relations)
649 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.
- § 1 — Findings and declarations
- § 10 — Effective date
- § 101 — Short title of title
- § 102 — Definitions
- § 1101 — (a)(15)(J) (relating to definitions) to an exchange
- § 1102 — Definitions
- § 1103 — Common-law marriage
- § 1104 — Forms
- § 1105 — Fees
- § 1106 — Records and statistics
- § 1123 — (relating to jurisdiction and venue),
- § 1126 — (relating to masters) and master for emergency
- § 1301 — Marriage license required
- § 1302 — Application for license
- § 1303 — Waiting period after application
- § 1304 — Restrictions on issuance of license
- § 1305 — Examination and tests for syphilis (Repealed)
- § 1306 — Oral examination
- § 1307 — Issuance of license
- § 1308 — Judicial review of refusal to issue license
- § 1309 — Filing applications and consent certificates
- § 1310 — Duration and form of license
- § 15 — Study by Department of Human Services
- § 1501 — Form of marriage certificates
- § 1502 — Forms where parties perform ceremony
- § 1503 — Persons qualified to solemnize marriages
- § 1504 — Returns of marriages
- § 151 — et seq
- § 1550 — (relating to judicial review)
- § 1601 — et seq
- § 1681 — a(f))
- § 1701 — Decree that spouse of applicant is presumed decedent
- § 1702 — Marriage during existence of former marriage
- § 1703 — Marriage within degree of consanguinity
- § 1704 — Marriage between persons of the same sex
- § 1721 — (relating to
- § 1752 — ), including an institution-affiliated party of such a credit
- § 1813 — (c)); an institution-affiliated party, as defined
- § 1901 — et seq
- § 1902 — Actions for breach of promise to marry abolished
- § 1903 — Purpose of chapter
- § 1904 — (relating to availability
- § 1905 — Instruments executed in satisfaction of abolished claims prohibited
- § 1952 — (relating to effect of separate amendments
- § 1960 — (relating to reinstatement
- § 2 — Applicability
- § 2101 — Short title of part
- § 2102 — Definitions
- § 2203 — (a) and (c) and 23 Pa
- § 2261 — (relating to interstate domestic violence) or 2262
- § 2266 — (relating to definitions) issued
- § 2301 — (relating
- § 2302 — Venue
- § 2311 — Who may be adopted
- § 2312 — Who may adopt
- § 2313 — Representation
- § 2501 — Relinquishment to agency
- § 2502 — Relinquishment to adult intending to adopt child
- § 2503 — Hearing
- § 2504 — Alternative procedure for relinquishment
- § 2504.1 — Confidentiality
- § 2505 — Counseling
- § 2511 — Grounds for involuntary termination
- § 2512 — Petition for involuntary termination
- § 2513 — Hearing
- § 2514 — Special provisions when child conceived as a result of rape or incest
- § 2519 — (relating to testamentary guardian) and there is a
- § 2521 — Effect of decree of termination
- § 2530 — Home study and preplacement report
- § 2531 — Report of intention to adopt
- § 2532 — Filing of report
- § 2533 — Report of intermediary
- § 2534 — Exhibits
- § 2535 — Investigation
- § 2551 — Definitions
- § 2552 — Pennsylvania Adoption Cooperative Exchange
- § 2553 — Registration of children
- § 2554 — Responsibilities of PACE
- § 2555 — Responsibilities of public and private agencies
- § 2556 — Related activities of agencies unaffected
- § 2557 — Regulations and staff
- § 2558 — Retroactive application of subchapter
- § 2701 — Contents of petition for adoption
- § 2702 — (relating to aggravated assault);
- § 2705 — (relating to recklessly endangering another person)
- § 2706 — (relating to terroristic threats)
- § 2709 — (relating to harassment) and 2709
- § 2709.1 — (relating to stalking)
- § 2711 — Consents necessary to adoption
- § 2712 — Consents not naming adopting parents
- § 2713 — When other consents not required
- § 2714 — When consent of parent not required
- § 2718 — (relating to strangulation)
- § 2721 — Notice of hearing
- § 2722 — Place of hearing
- § 2723 — Attendance at hearing
- § 2724 — Testimony and investigation
- § 2725 — Religious belief
- § 2731 — Purpose of subchapter
- § 2732 — Definitions
- § 2733 — Parties to agreement
- § 2734 — Consent of a child
- § 2735 — Filing and approval of an agreement
- § 2736 — Failure to comply
- § 2737 — Modification of agreement
- § 2738 — Enforcement of agreement
- § 2739 — Discontinuance of agreement
- § 2740 — Procedures for facilitating and resolving agreements involving a county child welfare
- § 2741 — Counsel
- § 2742 — Costs
- § 28 — Applicability
- § 29 — Construction of law
- § 2901 — Time of entry of decree of adoption
- § 2902 — Requirements and form of decree of adoption
- § 2903 — (relating to false
- § 2904 — (ii) Where the court finds after a hearing under this chapter that the defendant has inflicted
- § 2905 — Impounding of proceedings and access to records (Repealed)
- § 2906 — Docket entries
- § 2907 — Certificate of adoption
- § 2908 — Foreign decree of adoption
- § 2909 — Medical history information (Repealed)
- § 2910 — Penalty for unauthorized disclosure
- § 2911 — Definitions
- § 2912 — Combined request for information
- § 2913 — Reasonable fees
- § 2914 — Immunity from liability
- § 2915 — Court and agency records
- § 2916 — Attorney records
- § 2921 — Establishment of registry
- § 2922 — Informational material
- § 2923 — Filing information with registry
- § 2924 — Who may request information from registry
- § 2925 — Providing information from registry
- § 2926 — Rules and regulations
- § 2931 — Access to information
- § 2932 — Nonidentifying information
- § 2933 — Identifying information
- § 2934 — Statement of medical and social history information
- § 2935 — Confidentiality
- § 2936 — Refusal to search
- § 2937 — Original birth record
- § 2938 — Rules and regulations
- § 3 — Applicability
- § 3001 — (relating to definitions)
- § 301 — et seq
- § 3011 — (relating to trafficking in individuals),
- § 302 — (relating to
- § 3027 — (relating to promoting prostitution)
- § 3101 — Short title of part
- § 3102 — Legislative findings and intent
- § 3103 — Definitions
- § 3104 — Bases of jurisdiction
- § 3105 — Effect of agreement between parties
- § 3106 — Premarital agreements
- § 3121 — (relating to rape), 3133 (relating
- § 3122.1 — (relating to statutory
- § 3123 — (relating to
- § 3124.1 — (relating to sexual assault), where the offense involved sexual
- § 3124.2 — (relating to institutional sexual assault), where the offense
- § 3125 — (relating to aggravated
- § 3126 — (relating to indecent assault); and
- § 3127 — (relating to indecent exposure)
- § 3129 — (relating to sexual intercourse with animal)
- § 3130 — (relating to conduct relating to sex offenders)
- § 3301 — Grounds for divorce
- § 3302 — Counseling
- § 3303 — Annulment of void and voidable marriages
- § 3304 — Grounds for annulment of void marriages
- § 3305 — Grounds for annulment of voidable marriages
- § 3306 — Proceedings to determine marital status
- § 3307 — Defenses
- § 3308 — Action where defendant suffering from mental disorder
- § 3309 — General appearance and collusion
- § 3321 — Hearing by master
- § 3322 — Jury trial
- § 3323 — Decree of court
- § 3331 — Limitations on attacks upon decrees
- § 3332 — Opening or vacating decrees
- § 3333 — Res judicata and estoppel
- § 3401 — et seq
- § 3501 — Definitions
- § 3502 — Equitable division of marital property
- § 3503 — Effect of divorce on property rights generally
- § 3504 — Disposition of property after termination of marriage
- § 3505 — Disposition of property to defeat obligations
- § 3506 — Statement of reasons for distribution
- § 3507 — Division of entireties property between divorced persons
- § 3508 — Conveyance of entireties property to divorced spouse
- § 3701 — Alimony
- § 3702 — Alimony pendente lite, counsel fees and expenses
- § 3703 — Enforcement of arrearages
- § 3704 — Payment of support, alimony and alimony pendente lite
- § 3705 — Enforcement of foreign decrees
- § 3706 — Bar to alimony
- § 3707 — Effect of death of either party
- § 3731 — (relating to driving under influence of alcohol or controlled
- § 3732 — (relating to homicide by vehicle)
- § 3742 — (relating to accidents involving death or personal injury)
- § 3901 — Mediation programs
- § 3902 — Fees and costs