She was surprised, frankly, that it took so long. She is, after all, Dr. Phil's first wife, the ex-cheerleader he married Nov. 27, 1970, at Southridge Presbyterian Church in Roeland Park, Kan. That's Phillip C. McGraw, the TV psychologist Oprah made famous.
The age of consent is sixteen. With parental consent and/or the consent of the judge, males can marry at age seventeen and females can marry at age fifteen. Common law marriage is not recognized. The age of consent is seventeen.
Comments. Increasing the legal age of marriage for girls from minimum 18 years was mooted by the Madras High Court on Wednesday as a way out to check instances of hundreds of women getting married at an young age only to be separated a few years later. For a male, the marriage age is fixed as 21 years.