3.2 Procedure of Court Marriage

The step-by-step (the Code's design, as administered by the District Courts): Step 1 — Documents. For each Nepali party: citizenship certificate, passport-size photographs, and the ward office's unmarried-status certificate (bibahit nahune pramanpatra — proof of no subsisting marriage); a temporary-residence certificate where applying in a district of residence other than origin. For a foreign party: passport/visa, the home country's no-objection/ singleness certificate routed through the embassy (and certified translation into Nepali); foreign parties must also observe the residence requirement in practice. Two witnesses with their citizenship documents. Step 2 — The joint application. Both parties file the prescribed joint application at the District Court (where either party resides, or where they choose to register), pay the court fee, and submit the document set. Step 3 — Verification and the objection window. The court examines the conditions — age, monogamy, prohibited degrees, consent. Where the court is satisfied the conditions are met and the application is genuine and unopposed, registration may follow without delay; where the court is not satisfied — or doubts genuineness, or an interested person objects — the Code's public- notice/objection procedure operates (the fifteen-day window of practice), after which the court decides: objection sustained = refusal; objection rejected = registration to proceed. (This is the anti-fraud heart of the system: the window for the community — the…