Do All States Recognize Emancipation as a Result of Marriage
I ask because marriage ages vary wildly. MA, for example, allows for marriage for girls as young as 12 and boys as young as 13. So assume (for the sake of brevity) that all the legal ducks line up and these poor barely-teen babies gets get married, but move to, say...Pennsylvania. Would PA law accept them as emancipated adults as well, or would they be rejected because the minimum age to marry in PA is 14?
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You can investigate the laws of any state that is relevant to your question. Few here, if any, are going to want to research this in the abstract.
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You can investigate the laws of any state that is relevant to your question. Few here, if any, are going to want to research this in the abstract.
If I could find the answer to this question, I wouldn't have asked. I'm merely asking whether states respect a teen's emancipation from state to state is all. In other words, if you are emancipated in one state, does that mean you are emancipated in all states, or only in the state you got married?
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That's up to the state in question.
And FYI, while there is still a law on the books in MA that will allow 12 and 14 year olds to marry in MA, I can promise you that there haven't been any 12 or 14 year olds married in this state in a long, long while.
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If I could find the answer to this question, I wouldn't have asked. I'm merely asking whether states respect a teen's emancipation from state to state is all. In other words, if you are emancipated in one state, does that mean you are emancipated in all states, or only in the state you got married?
If you had a real situation, you wouldn't have received the answer you did for the question you asked.
And really - finding THIS took less time than it took me to actually type this response.
You're welcome.
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You're welcome.
Awesome! That's all I needed to know. Now you can go back to being a pompous know-it-all and I can go back to what I was reading before I stumbled across your glorious presence.
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FYI, while there is still a law on the books in MA that will allow 12 and 14 year olds to marry in MA, I can promise you that there haven't been any 12 or 14 year olds married in this state in a long, long while.
I would like to think it hasn't been since the turn of the century - and I'm talking the 20th century. :D
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It's probably longer ago than that.
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Awesome! That's all I needed to know. Now you can go back to being a pompous know-it-all and I can go back to what I was reading before I stumbled across your glorious presence.
You have permission to bask in the sheer glory that is me.