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Parental consent for under-18 marriage

Most states allow parental consent as one pathway to marry under 18, with some requiring both parental and judicial approval

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Jan 24, 2026
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Can minors get married with parental consent but without court approval in the US?

and without court approval ? The short answer: yes in some places, but not uniformly—state law is a patchwork that ranges from outright bans on under‑18 marriage to statutes that permit minors to marr...

Feb 3, 2026

Which U.S. states have no statutory minimum marriage age and what statutes allow judicial or parental waivers?

Four prominent advocacy reports and databases disagree on the exact set of states that currently lack a statutory because states use different combinations of explicit minimums, parental-consent carve...