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750 ILCS 5/208

(750 ILCS 5/208) (from Ch. 40, par. 208)

Sec. 208.

Judicial Approval of Underage Marriages.) (a)
The court, after a reasonable effort has been made to notify
the parents or guardian of each underaged party, may order
the county clerk to issue a marriage license and a marriage
certificate form to a party aged 16 or 17 years who has no
parent capable of consenting to his marriage or whose parent
or guardian has not consented to his marriage.

(b) A marriage license and a marriage certificate form may
be issued under this Section only if the court finds that the
underaged party is capable of assuming the responsibilities of
marriage and the marriage will serve his best interest.  Pregnancy
alone does not establish that the best interest of the party will
be served.

(Source: P.A. 80-923.)