Kirkpatrick v. Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada

*238OPINION

By the Court,

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 planning to and ultimately did undergo a marriage in Nevada. Because petitioner, who had an on-going personal and custodial relationship…