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Marriageable age, marriage age, or the age of marriage is the general age, ... Trinidad and Tobago: 18: Since 2017, the minimum age is 18. [139]
As of June 2017, the legal age of marriage in Trinidad and Tobago is 18. Prior to 2017, four Acts regulated the age of marriage in Trinidad and Tobago, leading to a number of inconsistencies: The Marriage Act of 1923, which governs Christian and civil marriages, set the minimum age of marriage at 18 years but allowed exceptions on religious ...
The Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage, and Registration of Marriages is a treaty agreed upon in the United Nations on the standards of marriage. The treaty was drafted by the Commission on the Status of Women and opened for signature and ratification by General Assembly resolution 1763 A (XVII) on 7 November 1962.
Trinidad and Tobago does not recognize same-sex marriage or civil unions. In July 2018, Justice Frank Seepersad of the San Fernando High Court approved an order to resolve a property dispute between two gay partners who had both a personal and a business relationship. Citing that equality before the law in property and inheritance matters ...
Chaplains from the various religious denominations present in Trinidad and Tobago are able to provide religious services to inmates in prisons. In 2017, Trinidad and Tobago set a uniform minimum marriage age of 18 years. Previously, different age limits were enforced for different religious groups.
The age of consent is the age at which a person is considered to be legally competent to consent to sexual acts and is thus the minimum age of a person with whom another person is legally permitted to engage in sexual activity. The distinguishing aspect of the age of consent laws is that the person below the minimum age is regarded as the ...
Pages in category "Treaties of Trinidad and Tobago" ... Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages; Medical Examination of Young Persons (Sea) Convention ...
The age of consent is 18 for homosexuals, it is unequal. Although the legal age of sexual consent is 16 years old, it is not enforced effectively. [citation needed] The marriage law sets the age of marital consent at 15 years for girls and 17 years for boys, provided that parents of the parties agree to the marriage. Parental permission to ...