Richard S. Levick v. Deborah MacDougall Deborah MacDougall v. Richard S. Levick

Summary

The Court held that the parties' marriage was valid because their ceremony, subsequent acquisition of a license, joint transmission of the marriage register, and the rabbi's execution of the certificate constituted an agreed method of completing solemnization. Virginia law did not require the license to precede every portion of the solemnization process, and it did not authorize declaring the marriage voidable or void ab initio on these facts. The Court therefore reversed and remanded for continuation of the divorce proceeding and adjudication consistent with the marital agreement.