Veteran reporter and former Press Herald writer and editor J. Craig Anderson will produce twice-weekly fact briefs to either verify or debunk online claims related to Maine news.
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Did Maine lack a legal minimum age for marriage prior to 2020? | Fact brief
Editor’s note: This is the first of our fact briefs, published in conjunction with the nonprofit Gigafact. Read more about our partnership here. Yes. Until 2020, Maine had no statutory minimum age for marriage. Previously, the state allowed 16- and 17-year-olds to marry with parental consent; children under 16 required both parental consent and judicial […]
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