Thinking of marriage at your age!

Table 16.2. Mean age at first marriage, by men and women

Minimum age for marriage and compilation of a marriage act at the vital statistics office upon contraction of the marriage are regulated.

MINIMUM AGE FOR CONTRACTING MARRIAGE

(d) The bill currently under consideration that aims at raising the age of marriage

According to family law, a person can enter marriage at the age of 18.

The legal age of marriage is set at 17 years for the girl and at 18 years for the boy.

Since Samoans were getting married at an older age, the Government should consider amending the marriage age to bring it in line with the Convention.

(a) The Law of Marriage Act discriminates against women with regard to the minimum age for marriage

However, article 144 of the Civil Code sets the minimum age of marriage for women at 15 years.

296. Other age criteria have been determined as a condition for contracting a marriage 21 years of age for a man and at least 18 years of age for a woman.

Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages. New York, 10 December 1962

Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages. New York, 10 December 1962

Iraqi legislators are considering reducing the age for child marriage to nine. Pakistan s Council of Islamic Ideology is calling for all age limits on marriage to be abolished.

The law on marriage and the family specifies a minimum age for marriage registration_18, both for women and men.

Table 22 Marriage of Young People up to Age 19, 2002

(b) The differential minimum age of marriage of women and men

While the minimum age for marriage for both boys and girls was set at 16, in practice girls suffered discrimination.

The law on marriage and the family establishes the age for marriage for men and for women to be 18.

This article continues to provide an avenue for those guardians who give their girls in marriage at an early age, particularly in rural areas, insofar as the phenomenon of early marriage still exists in certain social environments governed by customs and traditions whereby girls marry at a young age.

The marriage age in Benin was 18 for both girls and boys.

Therefore, women may not enter into marriage before the age of 15.

Incapacity also ceases upon marriage for women over 14 years of age.

The age of 21 was the legal age for both civil majority and marriage for both men and women.

The Committee is concerned at the difference with regard to the minimum age of marriage for boys and girls, as well as the possibility for girls to marry at an earlier age than 16.

It is particularly concerned at the disparities in the marriage ages for boys and girls and between the age of end of compulsory schooling and the minimum age for employment.

It was also urgent to raise the legal age of marriage for girls.

Which, she wondered, was the actual minimum age for marriage, 18 or 21?

b) men and women are protected by the minimum age requirement for marriage

Urges States to enact and strictly enforce laws to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses, to enact and strictly enforce laws concerning the minimum legal age of consent and the minimum age for marriage and to raise the minimum age for marriage where necessary

190. It is to be noted that amendments to the Marriage Registration Ordinance of 1907 and the Kandyan Marriage and Divorce Act of 1952 have raised the minimum age of marriage, for both males and females, governed by their provisions to 18 years of age.

The most common cause of entering a marriage before reaching legal age is the unexpected pregnancy of the minor, which results in marriage.

(a) Family and marriage, including polygamy age for marriage divorce and the requirement that a wife obtain her husband s consent for a passport

Article 148 of the Civil Code provides that a man may enter into marriage at age 16 and a women at age 14, subject to the consent of their parents that consent is not required once the parties attain their majority, which is Mexico is attained at age 18.

Men and women of marriageable age have the right to enter freely into marriage.

Table 2.1 Average age for first marriage by gender in 1999, 2001 and 2002

107. The Committee is concerned that the national legislation establishes a different minimum age for marriage between boys and girls and that it authorizes the marriage of girls as young as 14 years of age.

534. The Committee is concerned that the national legislation establishes a different minimum age for marriage for boys and girls and that it authorizes the marriage of girls as young as 14 years of age.

8. Urges States to enact and enforce strictly laws to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses, to enact and enforce strictly laws concerning the minimum legal age of consent and the minimum age for marriage and to raise the minimum age for marriage where necessary

8. Urges States to enact and enforce strictly laws to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses, to enact and enforce strictly laws concerning the minimum legal age of consent and the minimum age for marriage and to raise the minimum age for marriage where necessary

6. Urges States to enact and strictly enforce laws to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses, to enact and strictly enforce laws concerning the minimum legal age of consent and the minimum age for marriage and to raise the minimum age for marriage where necessary

6. Urges States to enact and strictly enforce laws to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses, to enact and strictly enforce laws concerning the minimum legal age of consent and the minimum age for marriage and to raise the minimum age for marriage where necessary

6. Urges States to enact and strictly enforce laws to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses, to enact and strictly enforce laws concerning the minimum legal age of consent and the minimum age for marriage and to raise the minimum age for marriage where necessary

6. Urges States to enact and strictly enforce laws to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses and, in addition, to enact and strictly enforce laws concerning the minimum legal age of consent and the minimum age for marriage, and to raise the minimum age for marriage where necessary

6. Urges States to enact and strictly enforce laws to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses, to enact and strictly enforce laws concerning the minimum legal age of consent and the minimum age for marriage and to raise the minimum age for marriage where necessary