Is not FOXNews.com - U.S. & World - Prosecutor Mulls Charges for Runaway Bride. The real story is that the media created an event. Instead of helping with missing persons reports, we had the media descend on Duluth, GA, with reports several times an hour. We had Greta and other luminaries "reporting" from the scene. The media built this thing up into some monstrous event that simply turned out to be a young lady cutting and running in the face of her wedding.
It is interesting that now, somehow, Ms. Wilbanks is responsible for upsetting the nation and causing Duluth to spend extra bucks on the disappearance. Had the police treated this as a missing persons issue, this wouldn't have happened.
Short of legally binding requirements (military, court appearancesj, etc), I'm not aware of any law that prevents anyone from simply leaving without notice to anyone. You may be in trouble later if your flight resulted in harm to children or was to avoid pending debt, but no one is bound to report their intended departure by anything other than common courtesy.
I'd like to have media interest in the form of missing persons notices if one of my family disappeared, but I certainly wouldn't want it to become a national circus of a media frenzy.
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