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255.05 – Unlawfully issuing a dissolution decree

§ 255.05 Unlawfully issuing a dissolution decree.

A person is guilty of unlawfully issuing a dissolution decree when,
not being a judicial officer authorized to issue decrees of divorce or
annulment, he issues a written instrument reciting or certifying that he
or some other purportedly but not actually authorized person has issued
a valid decree of civil divorce, annulment or other dissolution of a
marriage.

Unlawfully issuing a dissolution decree is a class A misdemeanor.

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