KIRKPATRICK v. DIST. CT.

No. 37593.

43 P.3d 998 (2002)

Bruce KIRKPATRICK, Petitioner, v. The EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT of the State of Nevada, In and For the COUNTY OF CLARK, and the Honorable Robert E. Gaston, District Judge, Family Court Division, Respondents, and Sierradawn Kirkpatrick Crow, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

April 11, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gayle F. Nathan, Las Vegas, for Petitioner.

Bruce I. Shapiro, Henderson; Rebecca L. Burton, Las Vegas, for Real Party in Interest.

BEFORE THE COURT EN BANC.


OPINION

AGOSTI, J.

In this case we are asked to determine the constitutionality of NRS 122.025, which permits a minor under the age of sixteen to marry with the consent of one parent and the district court's authorization. Under that statute, the district court permitted petitioner's fifteen-year-old daughter to marry a forty-eight-year-old man. Although the daughter's mother had provided consent, petitioner had no knowledge that his daughter was...

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