Persons being within the degrees of consanguinity within which marriages are declared by law to be incestuous and void, who intermarry with each other, or who being 14 years of age or older, commit fornication or adultery with each other, are punishable by imprisonment in the state prison.
Cal. Penal Code § 285
Bigamy, Incest, and the Crime Against Nature
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case A.M. v. Ventura Unified School Dist. (2016)
Most recently applied in United States v. Rodney Flucas (January 2022)
Amended by Stats. 2005, Ch. 477, Sec. 1
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