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In June 2018, the New Jersey child marriage ban bill was signed into law by the Governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, and went into effect immediately to implement a clear minimum age of 18, with no exceptions. This makes New Jersey the second state to completely ban child marriage, after Delaware. [113]
NEW YORK, May 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The governor of New Jersey declined to sign a measure into law on Thursday that would have made the U.S. state the first to ban child marriage ...
In 2018, the first two U.S. states – Delaware and New Jersey – signed laws ending all marriage before 18. [13] [14] Also in 2018, American Samoa, a U.S. territory, ended child marriage. [15] Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and the U.S. Virgin Islands followed in 2020, then Rhode Island and New York in 2021, and Massachusetts in 2022.
After reunification and independence, New Jersey abrogated the colonial common law, but created its own statuary sodomy law, the penalties for which were often modified. [5] Court decisions in New Jersey gradually restricted the application of sodomy laws to exclude first married couples, [5] and then all
Jan. 8—Child marriage is still legal in Washington, and on Monday state lawmakers moved along a proposed law to ban it. Today, children of any age can get married in the state. If they're 17 ...
CONCORD — The New Hampshire House passed a bill to ban child marriage in New Hampshire on Thursday. ... the law had allowed 13-year-old girls and 14-year-old boys to get married with parent and ...
M.T. v J.T., 140 N.J. 77, 355 A.2d 204, 205 (NJ Super.Ct. 1976), is a 1976 New Jersey Superior Court case which affirmed the validity of a marriage between a post-operative trans woman to a cissexual man, and in particular recognized the plaintiff changed legal sex, from male to female, when she phenotypic sex through surgery.
Last year, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie pledged himself a supporter of autism services. "You have an advocate for your issues in the governor's office and I am that advocate," he told members of ...