vows based on certain legal shortfalls. (1) One or both parties were not of legal age to consent to marriage (must be at least seventeen); (2) Parental consent or court order was not obtained for people married at age seventeen; (3) One (or both) spouse(s) were already married or in a registered domestic partnership to another person a.k.a. bigamy; (4) The spouses are too closely related by blood; (5) One (or both) party(ies) did not have the requisite capacity to consent to the marriage because of the influence of drugs or alcohol or because of mental incapacity; (6) One spouse was induced to enter into the marriage by force or duress or by fraud involving the essentials of marriage; and (7) The marriage took place outside of Washington state, and according to the laws of the place where the marriage took place, the marriage is void or voidable. Despite the existence of one or more of these factors, the parties may ratify their marriage curing the invalidity and the court not the marriage invalid.