Im 17 years old and about 3 months pregnant. I live in CA and the baby's daddy lives 5 hours away in LA. I want to go move with him since I hate living at home. There is no point in me staying here. I know one legal way is if were married. My parents would never sign the papers and give me off too him. He just turned 19. Is there any way we can get married without my parents permission?

When do you turn eighteen?

When do you turn eighteen?



I turn 18 on march 18 and my baby is due in feb.

In California, you must be eighteen or have written consent of at least one of your parents to get married under the age of eighteen. You also need to go to court and get a court order allowing your underage marriage. I can not find any statute that would allow for a deviation because you are pregnant. Below is the statue for California.

CALIFORNIA FAMILY.CODE SECTION 300-310 (http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cacodes/fam/300-310.html)

If your parents are unwilling to consent, you may need to wait until your eighteenth birthday to wed.

I have the same question me and my wife got married and her parents made a party with a wedding dress and we been living together for the past 4 months and she is pregnant :) we are happy together and want to get married legally. She lives with me and everything is perfect but her parents won't sign paper work for a marriage licence what do I do or can I get a marriage licence without there signature? Please contact me as soon as possible if anyone can help us thanks in advance

i have the same question me and my wife got married and her parents made a party with a wedding dress and we been living together for the past 4 months and she is pregnant we are happy together and want to get married legally. she lives with me and everything is perfect but her parents wont sign paper work for a marriage licence what do i do or can i get a marriage licence without there signature? plz contact me as soon as possible if anyone can help us thx in advance


Same question, same answer (assuming at least one of you is under age and you live in California.)

But I'm confused. You got married but not "married legally"? What does that mean? What are your ages?

We are bosnians and its our culture to get married young we are both 17 I'm about to turn 18 in 3 months

... we are bosnians ...

If you want to marry in Bosnia, sorry, but I don't know the answer there.

No we live in Georgia Atlanta

We are originally from Bosnia

no we live in Georgia Atlanta

we are originally from Bosnia

Where you are from doesn't make any difference. In Georgia too, you need parental consent if you are under 18.


"§ 19-3-2. Who may contract marriage; parental consent
(a) To be able to contract marriage, a person must:

(1) Be of sound mind;

(2) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this Code section, be at least 18 years of age;
...
(b) If either applicant for marriage is 16 or 17 years of age, parental consent as provided in Code Section 19-3-37 (http://www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/gacode/default.asp)shall be required."