marriage licenses

Waiting periods: licenses for marriage vs guns

cmonforton | July 2, 2015

Following last Friday’s Supreme Court ruling, most county clerks here in Texas began issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples. But many of those happy couples couldn’t immediately tie-the-knot. Texas requires couples to wait 72-hours after obtaining their license before they can say “I do.”* About half the States have such waiting periods which range from 24 hours to six days. One source describes the wait time as providing: “a cooling-off period for the couple to determine if they truly wish to be married.” So if a cooling off period is a good idea for matrimony, I’m stumped why there’s…