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New York Post, Friday, March 13, 2020

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Anyone younger than 18
will need a judge’s permis-
sion to get married in Indiana
under a law change approved
by state legislators.
The proposal endorsed al-
most unanimously by law-
makers late Wednesday
would repeal the state’s cur-
rent law that allows those as

young as 15 to marry if they

have parental consent.

The new law would only al-

low 16- or 17-year-olds to

marry someone no more

than four years older after

obtaining approval from a ju-

venile court judge.

Legislators heard during a

committee meeting from

women who were 15 or 16

when their parents forced

them to marry men who had

raped or molested them and

then faced more abuse before

being able to escape the rela-

tionship.

Current law doesn’t place

any age limit on the older

spouse, and Rep. Karen En-

gleman, the proposal’s spon-

sor, said her goal was to make

sure both people in a mar-

riage are on equal footing. “It

will help minor children to

not get into these violent situ-

ations,” said Engleman, a Re-

publican from Georgetown.

Engleman cited concerns

that girls who marry before

18 have greater risk of sexual

and domestic violence, along

with higher poverty and high

school dropout rates.

The bill, which now goes to

Gov. Eric Holcomb for con-

sideration, also would re-

quire judges to interview

each person in private to en-

sure their decisions are vol-

untary and that they are ma-

ture enough to consent.

Rep. John Bartlett, an Indi-

anapolis Democrat, said he

believed the law change

would protect girls from

marriages to much older

men. “Often those childhood

marriages are for human traf-

ficking,” he said. AP

Indiana takes steps to prohibit child brides

Would you like fries with
that estate?
A will scribbled on a
McDonald’s napkin is valid
and should be honored, a
Canadian judge has ruled.
Months after Philip Lan-
gan, 80, of Yorkton, died in
December 2015, several of
his kids produced the thin,
brown napkin with instruc-
tions to “split my property
evenly” between his seven
listed offspring.
Ronald and Sharon Langan
said he scrawled the list
when he believed he was
having a heart attack at a
McDonald’s earlier that year.
But another one of his
kids, Maryann Gust, ques-
tioned its authenticity —
saying her name was mis-
spelled as “Marann” and
she couldn’t confirm it was
her dad’s handwriting, said
a recent written decision by
Justice Donald Layh in
Yorkton, Saskatchewan.
Gust also said Langan told
her a month before he died
he wasn’t going to leave a
will because “he wanted us
kids to fight like he had to,”
Layh wrote in his ruling.
Three of Langan’s chil-
dren disputed that asser-
tion, swearing in affidavits
their dad did jot down his
will on the napkin and gave
it to Sharon saying so.
“Mr. Langan’s immediate
delivery of the will to his
daughter, Sharon, and the
comment he made to her —
as evidenced by both
Sharon and Philip’s state-
ments — that she keep the
document in case some-
thing happened to him,
shows a clear testamentary
intention,” Layh wrote.
His estate will now be
split among his seven living
children and their grand-
children.
Joshua Rhett Miller

Will on

napkin

is legit

By Rebecca Rosenberg

and Bruce Golding

Harvey Weinstein suffered a

“dangerous” rise in his blood

pressure after being sentenced to

23 years in prison Wednesday,

and is being monitored at Belle-

vue Hospital, his spokesman told

The Post on Thursday.

“His blood pressure spiked to a

dangerous level and given his an-

gioplasty last week, they brought

him to Bellevue to be watched

and monitored,” spokesman Juda

Engelmayer said.

“He did not have another angi-

oplasty.”

Weinstein, 67, was taken to

Bellevue on Wednesday night

after complaining of chest pains

while locked up on Rikers Island,

hours after his sentencing in a

packed Manhattan courtroom.

Engelmayer also denied reports

that claimed the disgraced movie

mogul had suffered a “mild heart

attack” and underwent a second,

“emergency angioplasty” sur-

gery.

He underwent an angioplasty

at Bellevue on March 4, more

than a week after he complained

of chest pains following his Feb.

24 conviction for sexually as-

saulting two women during sepa-

rate incidents in 2006 and 2013,

respectively.

The heart surgery is a mini-

mally invasive procedure in

which a surgical balloon is

threaded into a coronary artery

and inflated to improve blood

flow by pushing built-up plaque

against the wall of the artery.

A source who met with Wein-

stein in the public hospital’s

Prison Ward on Thursday said

the former Tinseltown titan

“didn’t say much” during the

visit.

“He’s concerned for his health

and just wants to make sure he

gets the proper medical attention

in spite of what people think,” the

source said.

On Wednesday, Manhattan Su-

preme Court Justice James

Burke rejected a defense request

to sentence Weinstein to the

mandatory minimum of five

years in prison and instead gave

him a punishment just six years

less than the maximum under

New York state law.

Burke cited evidence of other

incidents involving Weinsein, the

most high-profile villain of the

#MeToo movement, who’s been

publicly accused of sexual mis-

conduct or harassment by more

than 100 women.

Weinstein, who also underwent

back surgery in December, is

hoping to be placed in a prison

medical unit by the state Depart-

ment of Corrections.

But he’s also facing another

sex-assault trial, in Los Angeles,

where prosecutors have said they

started the extradition process

immediately following his Man-

hattan sentencing.

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the (blood)

pressure’s

on harvey

roll out: Harvey

Weinstein is wheeled from

court Wednesday to a

prison bus, but now he’s

back at Bellevue Hospital

after suffering a “danger-

ous” blood-pressure spike.

Matthew McDermott

Back at

Bellevue

after 23-yr.

sentence