Marriage to close relative prohibited; marriages between cousins; exceptions
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Commonwealth v. Rahim (2004)
Most recently applied in Baskin v. Bogan (June 2014)
As added by P.L.1-1997, SEC.3.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Sec. 2. Two (2) individuals may not marry each other if the individuals are more closely related than second cousins. However, two (2) individuals may marry each other if the individuals are:
(1) first cousins; and
(2) both at least sixty-five (65) years of age.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.