AMMAN — The parliament’s vast majority voted April 8 against raising the minimum age of marriage in exceptional cases from 15 to 16 in a joint session of the upper and lower houses to end the dispute over the personal status bill. Under normal circumstances, the legal age for marriage in Jordan is 18.
In December 2018, the House of Deputies endorsed amendments to the personal status law that kept the exception for early marriage at the age of 15. The amendments were referred to the Senate for debate and vote.
