McGuireWoods Consulting senior vice president and director Ashley Groome (left) and vice president Danica Key Thompson worked pro bono to help navigate the bill through the 2019 legislative session. (Courtesy photos)
Based on data that the Tahirih Justice Center obtained from the Georgia Department of Health, approximately 10,000 children under age 18 were married in the state between 2000 and 2015, many of them married to much older adult spouses. Child marriages are statistically linked to up to 80% divorce rates, 50% or greater high school dropout rates, much higher likelihood of future poverty, more short and long-term medical and mental health problems and increased vulnerability to violence.
July 17, 2019 at 06:20 PM
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McGuireWoods partner Ashley Groome picks one pro bono legislative project every year to support while she’s at the Capitol working for clients as director and senior vice president of the firm’s consulting branch.
This year it was House Bill 228, which took effect this month, raising the minimum age for marriage in Georgia from 16 to 18, or 17 with a judge’s order of emancipation. The point, said Groome, is that “only a legal adult” can be married.
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