THE Family Court has blocked a move to send a 14-year-old Melbourne girl overseas for an arranged marriage to a man she has never met.

The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told child protection officers that she was not attending school because her father did not approve and that she was engaged to be married and was planning to travel overseas to meet her fiance and be married there.

The teenager also said that she had been engaged for a month to the 17-year-old man and that she had only seen a photograph of him.

The girl said that she had not been forced into the engagement by her parents and that if she changed her mind after meeting her fiance, she would not have to marry him.

The child protection officers discussed the likely expectation on the child of having to have sex with her husband and formed the view that she had not considered the prospect.