For the latest Arizona Laws, visit AZ State Legislature - Title 25 - Marital and Domestic Relations
CHAPTER 1 - MARRIAGE
Article 1 - Capacity of Persons to Marry
25-101 - Void and prohibited marriages
25-102 - Consent required for marriage of minors
25-103 - Purposes
25-111 - Requirement of license and solemnization
25-112 - Marriages contracted in another state; validity and effect
25-121 - Marriage license; application; issuance; loss of license; affidavit; duplicate license
25-122 - Consent of parents of minors
25-123 - Recording licenses; endorsement of solemnization; recording return
25-124 - Persons authorized to perform marriage ceremony; definition
25-125 - Marriage ceremony; official; witnesses; marriage license
25-126 - Application to justice of the peace for marriage license; issuance; violation; classification
25-127 - Issuance of marriage license by a city or town; transfer of fees
25-128 - Unlawful acts of person authorized to solemnize marriages; classification
25-129 - Unlawful acts of person authorized to issue marriage license or make marriage records; classification
CHAPTER 2 - HUSBAND AND WIFE, PROPERTY AND CONTRACT RIGHTS
Article 1 - Arizona Uniform Premarital Agreement Act
25-201 - Definitions
25-202 - Enforcement of premarital agreements; exception
25-203 - Scope of agreement
25-204 - Amendment or revocation of agreement
25-205 - Limitation of actions
25-211 - Property acquired during marriage as community property; exceptions
25-213 - Separate property defined
25-214 - Management and control
25-215 - Liability of community property and separate property for community and separate debts
25-217 - Ownership of property acquired after moving into state
25-218 - Surrogate parentage contracts; prohibition; custody; definition
25-301 - Grounds
25-302 - Procedure and law
25-303 - Fees
Article 2 - Dissolution of Marriage
25-311 - Jurisdiction; form of petition; award of decree
25-311.01 - Fees
25-312 - Dissolution of marriage; findings necessary
25-313 - Decree of legal separation; findings necessary
25-314 - Pleadings; contents; defense; joinder of parties; confidentiality
25-315 - Temporary order or preliminary injunction; effect
25-316 - Irretrievable breakdown; finding
25-317 - Separation agreement; effect
25-318 - Disposition of property; retroactivity
25-319 - Maintenance; computation factors
25-320 - Child support; factors; methods of payment; additional enforcement provisions; definitions
25-320.01 - Child support arrearage; driver's license suspension; hearing
25-321 - Representation of child by counsel; fees
25-322 - Payment of maintenance or support; records; disclosure
25-323 - Assignments
25-323.03 - Forms; alternative forms
25-324 - Attorney fees
25-325 - Decree; finality; restoration of maiden name
25-326 - Independence of provisions of decree or temporary order; forms
25-327 - Modification and termination of provisions for maintenance, support and property disposition
25-328 - Sequence of trials when custody or visitation is an issue
25-329 - Waiting period
25-330 - Employer cooperation
25-351 - Domestic relations education; plan; administration
25-352 - Applicability of program; compliance
25-353 - Failure to comply
25-354 - Children's issues education fund; report
25-355 - Fees; exemption
25-381.01 - Purposes of article
25-381.02 - Definitions
25-381.03 - Applicability of article; determination by superior court
25-381.04 - Assignment of judges; number of sessions
25-381.05 - Transfer of cases; reason; duties of transferee judge
25-381.06 - Court assistants; salaries; appointments
25-381.08 - Jurisdiction
25-381.09 - Petition invoking jurisdiction or for transfer of action to conciliation court
25-381.10 - Petition; caption
25-381.11 - Petition; contents
25-381.12 - Blank forms; assistance in preparing and presenting petition
25-381.13 - Fees
25-381.14 - Hearing; time; place; notice; citation; witnesses
25-381.15 - Time and place of holding hearings
25-381.16 - Conduct of hearing; recommendations; aid of specialists; expense; confidential communications
25-381.17 - Orders; duration of effectiveness; reconciliation agreement
25-381.18 - Dissolution of marriage or legal separation, annulment, maintenance; stay of right to file; jurisdiction as to pending actions
25-381.19 - Transfer of certain actions where minor child involved
25-381.20 - Procedure in actions where no child is involved; conciliation court may accept case
25-381.21 - Construction of article
25-381.22 - Subsequent petition filed within one year
25-381.23 - Option for mandatory conciliation
25-381.24 - Counseling
CHAPTER 4 - CHILD CUSTODY AND VISITATION
Article 1 - Child Custody
25-401 - Jurisdiction; commencement of proceedings
25-402 - Definitions
25-403 - Custody; best interests of child; joint custody; modification of decree; fees; children and family services
25-404 - Temporary orders
25-405 - Interviews by court; professional assistance
25-406 - Investigations and reports
25-407 - Custody hearings; priority; costs; record
25-408 - Rights of noncustodial parent; visitation; exception; enforcement; access to records; suspension of visitation; relocation of child
25-409 - Visitation rights of grandparents and great-grandparents
25-410 - Judicial supervision
25-411 - Affidavit; contents
25-412 - Expedited child support and visitation fund
25-413 - Domestic relations education and mediation fund; report
25-414 - Violation of visitation rights; penalties
25-415 - Custody by nonparent; presumption; grounds; definitions
25-431 - Purposes of act; construction of provisions
25-432 - Definitions
25-433 - Jurisdiction
25-434 - Notice and opportunity to be heard
25-435 - Notice to persons outside this state; submission to jurisdiction
25-436 - Simultaneous proceedings in other states
25-437 - Inconvenient forum
25-438 - Jurisdiction declined by reason of conduct
25-439 - Information under oath to be submitted to the court
25-440 - Additional parties
25-441 - Appearance of parties and the child
25-442 - Binding force and res judicata effect of custody decree
25-443 - Recognition of out-of-state custody decrees
25-444 - Modification of custody decree of another state
25-445 - Filing and enforcement of custody decree of another state
25-446 - Registry of out-of-state custody decrees and proceedings
25-447 - Certified copies of custody decree
25-448 - Taking testimony in another state
25-449 - Hearings and studies in another state; orders to appear
25-450 - Assistance to courts of other states
25-451 - Preservation of documents for use in other states
25-452 - Request for court records of another state
25-453 - International application
25-454 - Severability
25-500 - Definitions
25-501 - Duties of support
25-502 - Jurisdiction, venue and procedure; additional enforcement provisions
25-503 - Order for support; methods of payment; modification; revocation; statute of limitations; judgment on arrearages; notice; security
25-504 - Order of assignment; ex parte order of assignment; responsibilities; violation; termination
25-505.01 - Administrative income withholding order; notice; definition
25-506 - Order for assignment; foreign support order
25-507 - Forms; alternative forms
25-508 - Enforcement of support orders; fee prohibition
25-509 - Representation by attorney general or county attorney; modification of order by attorney general or county attorney
25-510 - Receiving and disbursing support and maintenance monies
25-511 - Failure of parent to provide for child; classification
25-512 - Consumer credit reports; use of child support or spousal maintenance obligation information
25-513 - Employer cooperation; violation; classification
25-514 - Priority of action and judgments
25-515 - Child support automation fund; use; nonreversion
25-516 - Lien; notice; priority; recording; reciprocity
25-517 - Title IV-D agency; license suspension; notice
25-518 - Child support arrearage; license suspension; hearing; definition
25-519 - Regulatory entities; suspension of license
25-520 - Child support enforcement; administrative subpoena; civil penalty
25-521 - Levy; seizure of property for collection of support debt; definitions
25-522 - Administrative review; notice; determination; judicial review; definitions
25-523 - Financial institutions data match; nonliability; prohibited disclosure; liability; civil liability; definition
25-524 - Financial institutions; surrender of assets; nonliability
25-525 - Administrative enforcement; interstate cases; definition
25-531 - Definitions
25-532 - Enrollment of child
25-533 - Insurer obligations
25-534 - Employer obligations
25-535 - Enforcement of health insurance coverage; notice
25-621 - Definitions
25-622 - Remedies; nonexclusion
25-623 - Nonresidents; jurisdiction
25-624 - Proceedings; tribunals; initiating; responding
25-625 - Simultaneous proceedings in another state
25-626 - Continuing and exclusive jurisdiction
25-627 - Enforcement and modification of a support order by a tribunal having continuing jurisdiction
25-628 - Recognition of controlling child support orders; procedure
25-629 - Multiple child support orders for two or more obligees
25-630 - Credit for payments
25-631 - Proceedings; scope
25-632 - Minor parent; standing
25-633 - Application of law
25-634 - Duties of initiating and responding tribunal
25-635 - Duties of support enforcement agency; attorney general
25-636 - Private counsel
25-637 - Duties of the department of economic security
25-638 - Pleadings and accompanying documents; information; exception; costs
25-639 - Petitioner; limited immunity
25-640 - Nonparentage; defense
25-641 - Special rules of evidence and procedure
25-642 - Communications between tribunals
25-643 - Assistance with discovery
25-644 - Receipt and disbursement of payments
25-645 - Establishment of support order
25-646 - Employer's receipt of an income withholding order of another state
25-647 - Administrative enforcement of orders
25-648 - Registration of order for enforcement
25-649 - Notice of registration of order
25-650 - Procedure to contest the validity or enforcement of a registered order
25-651 - Contest of registration or enforcement
25-652 - Confirmation of order; effect
25-653 - Registration and modification of a child support order; procedure
25-654 - Recognition of an order modified in another state
25-655 - Proceedings to determine parentage
25-656 - Extradition; powers of the governor; procedure
25-657 - Compliance with multiple income withholding orders
25-658 - Immunity from civil liability
25-659 - Penalties for noncompliance
25-660 - Contest of validity by obligor
25-661 - Jurisdiction to modify support order of another state
25-681 - Child support arrest warrant; definition
25-682 - Time and manner of execution; information
25-683 - Procedure after arrest; payment for release from custody
25-684 - Preexisting warrants
25-685 - Entry into criminal information system
25-801 - Jurisdiction
25-802 - Venue
25-803 - Persons who may originate proceedings; custody; visitation; conciliation court
25-804 - Time for instituting proceedings
25-805 - Effect of death, absence, or insanity of plaintiff
25-806 - Complaint
25-807 - Precedence of maternity and paternity proceedings; delay for blood or tissue tests; court order; evidentiary use; alternative tests
25-808 - Issue
25-809 - Judgment
25-810 - Liability of parents if putative mother or father is a minor; periodic payments
25-811 - Availability of uniform reciprocal enforcement of support act remedies
25-812 - Voluntary acknowledgment of paternity; action to overcome paternity
25-813 - Default order of paternity
25-814 - Presumption of paternity
25-815 - Paternity; full faith and credit
25-816 - Title IV-D child support; paternity establishment; genetic testing
25-817 - Temporary support orders; presumption of paternity
25-901 - Covenant marriage; declaration of intent; filing requirements
25-902 - Existing marriages; conversion to covenant marriage; recording requirements
25-903 - Dissolution of a covenant marriage; grounds
25-904 - Decree of legal separation; grounds
25-905 - Temporary orders for support and spousal maintenance
25-906 - Information pamphlet; requirements; distribution
