Audio: What should Missouri’s legal marriage age be?

State News December 13, 2023 Anthony Morabith
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(Missourinet) – What should Missouri’s legal marriage age be? 

 

 

Republican state Senator Holly Thompson Rehder has pre-filed a bill that aims to modify Missouri’s statutes on marriage. The candidate for the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor wants to raise Missouri’s minimum age for marriage to 18 instead of the current 16. Under Rehder’s bill, a marriage license will not be issued to anyone under 18, nor will a license be granted if someone over the age of 21 marries someone under 18.

Another provision of the bill says that a license will not be issued to someone under 18 without parental consent.

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