Can you legally marry your aunt/uncle? Is this a federal or state law, if yes?

It is a state law in New York. It has only been illegal since 1906: From the New York Times:NIECE WOULD DISSOLVE MARRIAGE WITH UNCLE; Her Lawyers Grant That It Was Legal Here Until Recently, BUT SAY MORALS FORBID IT Law of Henry the Eighth Quoted in Support of Their Side Before the Appellate Division. February 23, 1906: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court is asked to dissolve the marriage of an uncle and niece.

The two became man and wife before the enactment of the New York law forbidding such a union. The attorney for the woman holds that if it is wrong now for uncle to marry niece it was always wrong, that it is against the sentiment of moral communities, and that therefore it ought not to be binding. From another source: Minnesota law has a grandfather clause allowing uncle-niece marriages when "permitted by the established customs of aboriginal cultures."

This site lists all the laws for state regarding incestuous marriages: http://www.cousincouples.com/info/statelaws.htmIt appears to be illegal in every state. Science says there's no difference between 1st cousins marrying and aunt/nephew uncle/niece marriages. Related genes means a higher chance of passing on genetic defects.

This is a matter of state law. The states, of course, vary. Some cultures allow that level of relationship and others don't.In Jewish law an uncle can marry his niece but an aunt cannot marry her nephew.

There are rationalizations but no actual science behind any of these laws, especially as marriage is not legally dependent upon having children. Louisiana law outlaws marriages between first cousins (although it used to be legal), as do about half the other states but few other countries. Aunts and uncles etc can't marry nieces and nephews in Louisiana either, unless it was recently changed.

Much of this sort of law in the USA derives from interpretations of the Bible.

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