Requisites for widowed divorced persons and minors.
Section 9
SEC. 9. Requisites for widowed divorced persons and minors.—In case either of the contracting parties is a widowed or divorced person, the same shall be required to furnish, instead of the baptismal or birth certificate required in the last preceding section, the death certificate of the deceased spouse or the decree of the divorce court, as the case may be. In case the death certificate cannot be found, the party shall make an affidavit setting forth this circumstance and his actual civil status and the name and the date of the death of the deceased spouse. In case the contracting parties or either of them, being single, are less than twenty years of a ore as regards male and less than eighteen years as regards the female, they shall, in addition to the requirements of the preceding sections, exhibit to the municipal secretary or to the clerk of the Municipal Court of the City of Manila, as the case may be, the consent to their marriage of their father, mother or guardian, or person having legal charge of them, in the order mentioned. Such consent shall be in writing, under oath taken with the appearance of the interested parties before the proper municipal secretary or the clerk of the Municipal Court of Manila, or in the form of an affidavit made in the presence of two witnesses and attested by a priest or minister authorized to solemnize marriage, or before any official authorised by law to administer oaths.