![]() 'North Carolina is one of the friendliest states in the South to give them safe haven,' he said. Reisinger said the county, which includes the popular tourist city of Asheville, is a destination for many adults and child brides from nearby states such as Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee - all of which have raised the minimum marriage age in recent years. Two-thirds of the marriage applications in Buncombe County last year were filed by nonresidents seeking to marry an underage person, Reisinger said, noting that a 49-year-old man and 17-year-old girl recently came from Kentucky seeking a license. 'We will have moved the needle and made North Carolina no longer at the very bottom of the barrel of states,' said Drew Reisinger, the register of deeds in Buncombe County, about the new bill.īut, he said, 'we're still going to be putting a lot of children in harm's way.' ![]()
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