How nice an information that will seek to free Children from the bondage of Child marriage
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet came to a unanimous conclusion, on Wednesday, to a new draft law for the singular purpose of banning child marriages.
The law stated by a reliable information, drawn up by Justice Minister Heiko Maas, puts the minimum age for marriage in Germany at 18 years.
About 1,500 minors with non-German backgrounds living in the country were registered as married at the end of July 2016, according to the Cologne-based Central Register of Foreign Nationals.
Under the new law all marriages of people under the age of 16 will be declared null and void.
The new rules also call on the courts to revoke any marriage when one of the couple was aged between 16 and 18 years at the time of the union.
The government also plans to extend the new rules to marriages that took place outside of Germany.
Meanwhile, the authorities will consider not applying the law in specific cases of hardship, such as a severe and life-threatening illness.
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