A bill that will place even greater restrictions on child marriages in the state is headed to the desk of Gov. Spencer Cox after passing both chambers of the Utah Legislature.

The bill would tighten the maximum age gap allowed in child marriages. In other news, Little Cottonwood Canyon was ...

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: Republican Sen. John Carley’s comments on the Senate floor ...

A key House committee deadlocked over whether to recommend support or political death for carving out an exception to the ban on child marriage to allow a 17-year-old to wed when one of the partners ...

A Senate Bill, SB156, an act to increase the minimum age for marriage, has cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a 4-2 ...

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Proponents of the bill included survivors of child marriages, including Sheena Eastman of Missouri, who gave emotional testimony. “I got married 45 days after my 15th birthday to a 21 year old ...