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Repealing no-fault divorce has so far stalled across the US. Some worry that’ll change under Trump.

Kimberlee Kruesi, AP

November 29, 2024

Warnings have been popping up on social media urging women who might be considering divorce to “pull the trigger” while they still can ever since President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance won the election. While Trump hasn’t championed overhauling the country’s divorce laws, Vance did lament that divorce is too easily accessible.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: divorce, marriage

A plan to discriminate against same-sex marriages in Tennessee would’ve made child marriage legal. It’s now expected to be amended.

Blaise Gainey

April 5, 2022

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A Tennessee bill that would have eliminated minimum age limits to get married caught fire on social media this week. Now, the bill’s Republican sponsor is amending the legislation.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 112th Tennessee General Assembly, gay marriage, General Assembly, legislation, legislature, marriage, same-sex marriage, Tennessee General Assembly, Tennessee Legislature

Tennessee Lawmakers Struggle To Decide: How Young Is Too Young To Marry?

Chas Sisk

March 26, 2018

Listen Later this week, Tennessee lawmakers will again take up the question of how old people need to be to get married. It’s an issue that has perplexed legislators during this year’s session. Advocates for a measure banning underage marriage point to a particular case: In 2000, a Kentucky woman took her 14-year-old daughter across […]

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: marriage, Politics

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