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The legal requirements for establishing paternity and transmitting citizenship to a child born abroad out of wedlock.
A Consular Report of Birth Abroad (, Form FS‑240) documents that a child born overseas acquired citizenship at birth and requires proof of the child’s birth, the parent’ U.S. citizenship and identity,...
Most jurisdictions set adulthood at 18 for marriage, but the statutory floor varies: the without exceptions is 18 in most states, with at 19 and at 21, while many states allow minors to wed with paren...
There is documented evidence that and child marriage occur in the and that such marriages commonly result in coerced childbearing, but the phenomenon is driven by a patchwork of state laws, cultural p...
A child born on U.S. soil is, by long-standing constitutional interpretation, a U.S. citizen at birth, a status that does not automatically change the immigration or criminal exposure of the child’s n...