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A.R.S. § 13-3608

Incest; classification

Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Commonwealth v. Rahim (2004)

Most recently applied in Ghassemi v. Ghassemi (October 2008)

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Persons who are eighteen or more years of age and are within the degrees of consanguinity within which marriages are declared by law to be incestuous and void, who knowingly intermarry with each other, or who knowingly commit fornication or adultery with each other are guilty of a class 4 felony.

Official source: Arizona State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Arizona statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.