Do You Have to Pay Child Support After a Minor Child Gets Married

[qwaspolk69]

How can you find out if the kid gets married?

How do you not know that your child got married?

[jk]

"Certified copies of marriage licenses or divorce decrees are only available from the county clerk (marriage) or district clerk (divorce) in the county or district in which it was obtained." So the OP could find out if a marriage has occurred by going to the County Clerk's Office in the County the couple was married in.

https://www.dshs.texas.gov/Vital_Sta...r_Divorce.aspx

From your link;

The Vital Statistics Unit provides letters verifying if marriage or divorce was recorded with the State of Texas based on the application for marriage or divorce sent to our office by the county or district clerk. If no record of a marriage is found, the verification letter itself can be considered a "single-status letter," which some foreign countries accept as legal proof of single status.

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the issuing of a marriage license does not prove it was solemnified. Some people obtain a license and never complete the process.

How do you not know that your child got married?

Nobody told him maybe?


there is no state office that notifies parents their children got married.

[namya]

And how long is the petition process?

[qwaspolk69]

From your link;

The Vital Statistics Unit provides letters verifying if marriage or divorce was recorded with the State of Texas based on the application for marriage or divorce sent to our office by the county or district clerk. If no record of a marriage is found, the verification letter itself can be considered a "single-status letter," which some foreign countries accept as legal proof of single status.

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the issuing of a marriage license does not prove it was solemnified. Some people obtain a license and never complete the process.






Nobody told him maybe?


there is no state office that notifies parents their children got married.

I understand that but I would think they would have been told about the possibility if the OP is asking about it.

[cbg]

There's something about not only this post but the OP's other one as well that gives the impression that this is very little about the welfare of the 17 year old and a great deal about money.

[namya]

I was reading and I found out that Texas just banned underage marriages a month ago. Is the law already in effect?

I don't get how any 17 year old can marry if it is banned.

[qwaspolk69]

I was reading and I found out that Texas just banned underage marriages a month ago. Is the law already in effect?

I don't get how any 17 year old can marry if it is banned.

It's not banned really - child marriage is banned: https://www.texastribune.org/2017/06...-child-brides/

"Senate Bill 1705 by state Sen. Van Taylor, R-Plano, would prohibit a person younger than 18 from marrying unless a judge consents. It also would prohibit anyone under 16 from getting married." So if a judge consented - your child could have gotten married.

If she got married before June this year, then she could have been married. If after this article - then likely not. If you can't find any evidence of her being married then she's not and yo get to keep paying child support.

There's also this article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor...e_finally.html

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill into law Thursday that closed a few loopholes allowing child marriage in the state. The new law prohibits marriage people under age 18 unless they are emancipated minors, and therefore legal adults. Since Texas only allows emancipation for minors aged 16 or 17, the state now sets a hard age threshold on marriage at age 16.

[namya]

It's not banned really - child marriage is banned: https://www.texastribune.org/2017/06...-child-brides/

"Senate Bill 1705 by state Sen. Van Taylor, R-Plano, would prohibit a person younger than 18 from marrying unless a judge consents. It also would prohibit anyone under 16 from getting married." So if a judge consented - your child could have gotten married.

If she got married before June this year, then she could have been married. If after this article - then likely not. If you can't find any evidence of her being married then she's not and yo get to keep paying child support.

There's also this article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor...e_finally.html

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill into law Thursday that closed a few loopholes allowing child marriage in the state. The new law prohibits marriage people under age 18 unless they are emancipated minors, and therefore legal adults. Since Texas only allows emancipation for minors aged 16 or 17, the state now sets a hard age threshold on marriage at age 16.

I read a little more about this and I want to ask if this bill goes into effect September 1st.. So how am I going to figure out when th married??

[qwaspolk69]

I read a little more about this and I want to ask if this bill goes into effect September 1st.. So how am I going to figure out when th married??

If you can't find out from your child or the mother then you can try asking friends of the family. You might not ever find out. Or go talk to a lawyer about this and see what they say. But if your child got married before this when it was legal for a 17 year old to marry with a parent's permission then that child would be emancipated. I would think that the kid is already married by now but who knows?

[Mark47n]

Perhaps it will clear things up if you answer a few questions:

Who are you in relation to the child?
If it's your child how is it that you don't know if they are married, especially at the age of 17? If it's not your child then why do you care?
What is your ultimate goal here? What are you trying to achieve?