McGuireWoods Consulting senior vice president and director Ashley Groome (left) and vice president Danica Key Thompson worked pro bono to help navigate the bill through the 2019 legislative session. (Courtesy photos)
McGuireWoods partner Ashley Groome picks one pro bono legislative project every year to support while she’s at the Capitol working for clients as director and senior vice president of the firm’s consulting branch.
This year it was House Bill 228, which took effect this month, raising the minimum age for marriage in Georgia from 16 to 18, or 17 with a judge’s order of emancipation. The point, said Groome, is that “only a legal adult” can be married.
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