Stanton v. Stanton

This appeal brings before us for the second time the Utah Supreme Court’s construction of Utah Code Ann. § 15-2-1 (1973),1 which established 21 as the age of majority for males, and 18 as the age for females, as applied to a parent’s obligation to support his children. In our first opinion, we held that this distinction between males and females violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Stanton v. Stanton, 421 U. S. 7 (1975) (Stanton I).2 We, of course, did not decide how Utah was to eliminate the discrimination between the *502genders,…