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Perhaps Yemen should reconsider not having a law setting a minimum age for marriage. Silver lining, we guess, they at least also don’t have a minimum age for divorce.

A Yemeni court on Tuesday granted a divorce to an eight-year-old girl whose unemployed father forced her into an arranged marriage this year, saying he feared she might be kidnapped.

“I am happy that I am divorced now. I will be able to go back to school,” Nojud Mohammed Ali said, after a public hearing in Sanaa’s court of first instance.

Her former husband, 28-year-old Faez Ali Thameur, said he married the child “with her consent and that of her parents” but that he did not object to her divorce petition.

In response to a question from Judge Mohammed al-Qadhi, he acknowledged that the “marriage was consummated, but I did not beat her.”

But her husband, Josh Kelley (i.e. a very, very lucky man), doesn’t. And who can blame him? The pair were just married last December, and we wouldn’t be ready to share Katherine Heigl’s attention yet, either.

So they have love, they have marriage. What’s next? Any thoughts of baby carriages?

“I think he’d prefer to wait a little more time, but I kind of wouldn’t, so I think we’ll meet somewhere in the middle.”

Though with both stars shining so brightly right now, she added that it would be “foolish” to waste opportunities.