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Five states prohibit first-cousin-once-removed marriages. [4] Some states prohibiting cousin marriage recognize cousin marriages performed in other states, but despite occasional claims that this holds true in general, [5] laws also exist that explicitly void all foreign cousin marriages or marriages conducted by state residents out of state.
In Pakistan, where there has been cousin marriage for generations and the current rate may exceed 50%, one study estimated infant mortality at 12.7 percent for married double first cousins, 7.9 percent for first cousins, 9.2 percent for first cousins once removed/double second cousins, 6.9 percent for second cousins, and 5.1 percent among ...
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Person "nearer of kin to the actor than first cousin…whether of the half or the whole blood, with knowledge of the relationship". Sexual intercourse Up to 10y [3] Mississippi: Person within degrees of consanguinity which make marriages incestuous and void due to blood. Marriage or cohabitation, adultery or sexual intercourse Up to 10y or $500 ...
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Rudy Giuliani married a first cousin, so did singer Jerry Lee Lewis, who at 22, married a 13-year-old cousin. The Bible’s Old Testament talks about cousin marriage. In one passage God instructs ...
1 Some states recognize marriages performed elsewhere, especially when the spouses were not residents of the state when married. 30 U.S. states prohibit most or all marriage between first cousins. Six states prohibit marriages between first cousins once removed. [14]
In re the Marriage of Earl E. Adams: December 31, 1979: Supreme Court of Montana: Held that a first cousin marriage in Montana, where it was prohibited and where the courts were bound to declare it as void, was indeed void. The wife received no portion of the estate. In the Matter of the Estate of Owen C. Loughmiller, Deceased: June 10, 1981