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

For Judicial approval · Mississippi, state is Mississippi; minimum age is No age floor set by statute; exception type is Judicial approval; additional conditions is the parents or other person in loco parentis of the person or persons so under age consent to the marriage; statutory citation is Miss. Code Ann. § 93-1-5, recorded from its source on 2026-08-31.

- **State:** Mississippi _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Minimum age:** No age floor set by statute _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Exception type:** Judicial approval _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Additional conditions:** the parents or other person in loco parentis of the person or persons so under age consent to the marriage _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Statutory citation:** Miss. Code Ann. § 93-1-5

## What the source says

> (d) If the male applicant is under seventeen (17) years of age or the female is under fifteen (15) years of age, and satisfactory proof is furnished to the judge of any circuit, chancery or county court that sufficient reasons exist and that the parties desire to be married to each other and that the parents or other person in loco parentis of the person or persons so under age consent to the marriage, then the judge of any such court in the county where either of the parties resides may waive the minimum age requirement and by written instrument authorize the clerk of the court to issue the marriage license to the parties if they are otherwise qualified by law.

## 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.
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