JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Two bills making rounds in the Missouri Senate call for the state to increase its minimum legal marriage age to 18 years old.
Senate Bills 767 and 1342 raise this possibility. Missouri State Sens. Holly Thompson Rehder (R-Scott City) and Lauren Arthur (D-Kansas City) introduced the bills. Both are similar in the changes requested to Missouri’s marriage laws.
Right now, Missouri statutes prohibit anyone under 16 years old from getting married and anyone under 18 years old from getting married to another person who is at least 21 years old.
Both bills want to amend Missouri’s laws and change the state’s minimum legal marriage to 18 years old in all cases.
The full article is available at ozarksfirst.com.
(Story by Joey Schneider, ozarksfirst.com)
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