# Judicial approval · Colorado — Minimum marriage age and exceptions by state

For Judicial approval · Colorado, state is Colorado; minimum age is 16; exception type is Judicial approval; age with judicial approval is sixteen or seventeen years of age; additional conditions is Pregnancy alone does not establish that the best interests of the party would be served, recorded from its source on 2026-08-31.

- **State:** Colorado _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Minimum age:** 16 _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Exception type:** Judicial approval _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Age with judicial approval:** sixteen or seventeen years of age _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Additional conditions:** Pregnancy alone does not establish that the best interests of the party would be served.
- **Statutory citation:** Colo. Rev. Stat. § 14-2-108

## What the source says

> (1) The juvenile court, as defined in section 19-1-103 (17), after a reasonable effort has been made to notify the parents or legal guardians of each underage party, may order the county clerk and recorder pursuant to subsection (2) of this section to issue a marriage license and a marriage certificate form to a party sixteen or seventeen years of age.

## Source

- https://www.tahirih.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2025-Statutory-Text-Compilation.pdf

Last verified: 2026-08-31. Review by: 2026-12-29.
Part of [Minimum marriage age and exceptions by state](https://referencesource.org/state-minimum-marriage-age-exceptions/).