Is it illegal to marry or have sexual intercourse with your first cousin?
I was looking at the louisiana law section about sex offenders and stuff and it defined incest as the sexual intercourse or marriage with ascendent, descendent, aunt or niece, uncle or nephew but i dont see anywhere in there talking about cousins and ive always been told that getting married to your cousin is illegal. im not thinking about doing it but i was just curious. thanx!!
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I believe it is illegal in some states. I am not sure about Louisiana.
If marriage is the issue, you can always get married in another state, as all states are required to recognize marriages from every other state.
It is not always an issue because a first cousin is not always a blood relation, and a first cousin once removed is like a 2nd cousin.
There is the issue of inbreeding, which is greatly exaggerated, but there is still some risk.
Marriage licenses are issued on a County level of government, not state. You might want to check your city and county laws also.
It's legal in the South.
I honestly don't know too much about that state, but the law everywhere else says no, you cannot marry your relatives. They probably just forgot to put that part in that says cousin.
In the state of TN it has to at least be your third cousin before you can "breed" or get married. Anything before that is incest.
I don't know about illegal and I won't waste my time trying to find out. But how about the fact that it is immoral, perverted and disgusting. Sex offenders are already sick... when they take it to the incest level, that goes beyond disgusting. There is no punishment good enough for sick idiots like that.
as we can observe and what we knew from many sources of info like on t.v, radio, etc.,there are many cases like that..and in some way..i don't think it is allowed coz those who r involved n this case..still have an interrelation to 1 another..and in the near future,their child would most likely to have abnormalities in many aspects
It is illegal in LA, but legal elsewhere. See link.
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/cyf/cousins...
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