Act No. 3613 Section 27

Failure to comply with formal requirements.

Section 27

SEC. 27. Failure to comply with formal requirements.—No marriage shall be declared invalid because of the absence of one or several of the formal requirements of this Act if, when it was performed, the spouses or one of them believed in good faith that the person who solemnized the marriage was actually empowered to do so and that the marriage was perfectly legal.

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