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http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4778829,00.ht...
>
> Marriage ruling a 'real shocker'
>
> By Charlie Brennan, Rocky Mountain News
> June 16, 2006
> A common-law marriage in Colorado between a 14-year-old boy and 12-
> year-old girl is possible in the wake of an appellate court ruling
> Thursday.
> That's the potential fallout from a Colorado Court of Appeals decision
> that overturned a lower court finding that 15 is too young for a girl
> to enter into common-law union.
>
> "This is a real shocker," said Stephen Harhai, a Denver attorney and
> past chairman of the family law section of the Colorado Bar
> Association. "Under this action, this means your 12-year-old can, with
> whomever, say, 'I intend to be married to you,' and that's it,
> (they're) married. That's a little shocking."
>
> The decision by a three-judge panel reversed a Weld County case in
> which a judge ruled that a 15- year-old girl was too young to consent
> to a common-law marriage.
>
> It does not affect state law regarding "statutory" or conventional
> marriage in Colorado, which sets the minimum marriage age at 16 and
> requires either parental or judicial approval for 16-year-olds and 17-
> year-olds.
>
> The Weld County case that sparked Thursday's decision involves a girl
> known in legal documents as J.M.H., who started living with Willis Lee
> Rouse in April 2002 when she was 14 and Rouse was 34.
>
> Rouse is now a 38-year-old inmate at the Fremont Correctional
> Facility, serving four years for stalking and escape. J.M.H. recently
> turned 18.
>
> Weld County Attorney Bruce T. Barker declined to discuss the original
> case in detail because J.M.H. is still the subject of an ongoing
> dependency and neglect action brought by the Weld County Department of
> Human Services.
>
> Thursday's appellate court ruling stopped short of firmly establishing
> a minimum age for common-law unions. It noted, however, that Colorado
> recognizes English common law, which legalizes such marriages at age
> 12 for girls and 14 for boys.
>
> "Previously, Colorado law did not set an (minimum) age" for common-
> law unions, Harhai said. "That's why this is a new precedent."
>
> Harhai said that, while surprising, the appellate decision was not
> logically or legally flawed and was in line with other established
> Colorado law.
>
> Therefore, said Harhai, it would likely require action by the state
> legislature if Coloradans are uncomfortable with the result of
> Thursday's ruling.
>
> In fact, the ruling seemed to offer an "invitation" to legislative
> correction, Harhai said, by including the phrase "in absence of a
> statutory provision to the contrary."
>
> In Rouse's appeal, he stated that he and J.M.H. began living together
> in April 2002 and applied for an Adams County marriage license a year
> later.
>
> The girl achieved legal independence by April 2003, but her mother
> consented to the marriage, according to the ruling, and went with her
> daughter and Rouse to the county clerk's office to get a license.
>
> A license was issued, but Weld County District Judge James Hartmann
> granted a motion by the Weld County Department of Human Services to
> invalidate the marriage. He ruled that those under age 16 must have
> judicial approval for either common-law or ceremonial marriage.
>
> The appellate court, however, agreed with Rouse that he could legally
> marry J.M.H. It didn't conclude whether she and Rouse have a legal
> marriage, returning the case to the trial judge to settle that
> question.
>
> Rouse is in prison in connection with a December 2002 arrest for
> sexual assault on a child. Westminster police arrested him for
> allegedly having sex with a girl who was living with him at the time,
> a police report said.
>
> The girl became pregnant, but told investigators she did not have sex
> with Rouse and that the father of the child was someone else. Police
> removed her from Rouse's home and returned her to her mother, and the
> case was reported to Adams County Social Services, the report said.
>
> According to court records, Rouse pleaded guilty to a stalking charge
> in the case, and all sexual assault charges were dropped. He was
> sentenced to four years.
>
> Colorado is one of 10 states, plus the District of Columbia, that
> acknowledge common-law marriage. Pennsylvania recently elected not to
> recognize common-law marriages after Jan. 1, 2005.
>
> "It appears that Colorado has adopted the common-law age of consent
> for marriage as 14 for a male and 12 for a female, which existed under
> English common law," the ruling stated. "Nevertheless, we need only
> hold here that a 15-year-old female may enter into a valid common-law
> marriage."
>
> English common law is the traditional unwritten law of England, based
> on custom and use, which began developing hundreds of years before the
> founding of the United States.
>
> brennanc@
RockyMountainNews.com or 303-892-2742 Staff writer Tillie
> Fong contributed to this report.
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/005073.php
>
> Thursday :: Aug 4, 2005
> Puppy Love Takes Precedence In Kansas Over Real Important Issues
>
> by pessimist
> Too young to marry?
>
> It's a line not likely to land in the state's promotional brochure:
> Come to Kansas, girls, where you can get hitched at age 12. Thanks to
> a Falls City love affair that has raised the ire of Nebraska Attorney
> General Jon Bruning, however, the marriage age could land on that
> state's legislative to-do list.
> Despite pesticide usage sickening school kids, and EPA regulations
> affecting farmers' economic bottom lines, and reversion to horse-and-
> plow farming becoming more common because it's cheaper than using
> diesel machines, the Kansas Legislature is going to drop everything on
> its agenda and rush to repair their moral standing in the eyes of
> Jesusland. Over-crowded Kansas jails can wait! Bring on the Chastity
> Belt Act!
>
> Matthew Koso rests on the pregnant belly of his 14-year-old wife,
> Crystal Koso.
> (Krista Niles)
>
> "We probably ought to discuss it," said one Kansas lawmaker, Rep. John
> Faber. He represents five counties in northwest Kansas that border
> Nebraska. [PDF] "Some laws just don't make any sense."
> Considering some of the other issues which are more likely to affect
> the good citizens of Kansas and Nebraska, this whole situation doesn't
> make any sense for all the attention it's getting while more important
> issues barely get a glance!
>
> The [law] in question came to light last week when Bruning announced
> he filed a rape charge against a 22-year-old Falls City man who
> married his pregnant, 14-year-old girlfriend. They didn't tie the knot
> in their home state, because the law wouldn't allow it. The minimum
> marriage age in Nebraska, with parental consent, is 17. Not so in
> Kansas, where the couple married in May. In the sunflower state, the
> bar is set at 12 years old, with parental consent; boys have to wait
> until they're 14.
> Asked to pick what he thought was a reasonable age fellow Kansas
> lawmakers should consider, Faber said 16. "That's a lifetime away from
> 12 years old."
>
> "I didn't realize it was that young," said another Kansas lawmaker,
> Rep. Sharon Schwartz. She has two border counties, Marshall and
> Washington, in her northeast Kansas district. [PDF] "I'd probably be
> supportive" of raising the age, she added.
>
> Should Kansas raise the marriage-age limit, it would be more in line
> with other states.
>
>
> They could add it to the Kansas Marriage Amendment! That'll stop those
> horny and un-parentally-supervised teenagers!
>
> According to information compiled by the Cornell University Legal
> Information Institute, only one other state, Massachusetts, has a
> minimum age of 12 for girls, with parental consent. No state has a
> minimum below 12 years. The most common minimum age with parental
> consent is 16, putting Nebraska's law close to par with other states,
> and most of its neighbors. The border states of Iowa, South Dakota and
> Colorado have 16 as the minimum age, with parental consent.
> But as a Kansas official points out, this isn't a hunka-hunka-burning
> love issue in their state:
>
> Not a lot of pre-pubescent girls have taken advantage of the lenient
> Kansas law in recent years. In 2003, the most recent year for which
> data is available, just five girls younger than 15 got married in
> Kansas, according to Sharon Watson, spokeswoman for the Kansas
> Department of Health and Environment. There were three in 2002.
> Lest someone think that I'm taking this lightly, I am the father of a
> 15 year old daughter. I have to wonder just what the parents were
> thinking allowing their under-age daughter to get involved with an
> older man. I know that I would be much more of my daughter's
> activities (as I indeed am, thank you very much!) than they appear to
> have been.
>
> But on the other hand, to paraphrase our Secretary of Illegal
> Invasion, you go with the pregnant daughter you have when she needs to
> get married, not the virginal one you wish you had. And the man in
> question didn't dodge his responsibilities by running off, as many of
> us personally are aware of someone who did take off. In a sense, the
> couple are making the best of the sitation they created. I really wish
> them luck, for they are going to need it.
>
> Almost as much as the two states they riled up with their affair will,
> since they have no sense of proportion concerning importance.
>
> A lot of commentary here.
>
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