I thought you’d have worked out what it is for yourself. Legal proof of marriage is limited to a Marriage Certificate.
This was 1964 in HI. I have no idea what ‘proof’ of marriage was acceptable to the judge. Do you have a citation for your claim that applies specifically to HI for that timeframe?
& btw, no, I don’t for a moment believe there was a standard issue marriage certificate available in Stanley Ann’s case. If there were, the excerpt I have posted from Dreams from my Father would be nonsensical gibberish. Ayers is an America-hating radical terrorist, but he’s not stupid. He wouldn’t hang an illegitimate birth around Obama’s neck for the heck of it. I explained his reasons for including that passage up thread. There is no other possible motive for putting such a ‘murky’ reference in Dreams. The ‘wedding’ was irregular *at best*.