Known as the Oregon Family Fairness Act
The act spans §§ 106–106 (43 sections).
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case 165 Or. App. 327 - In the Matter of the Marriage of Goode (2000)
Most recently applied in Kuang v. Kuang (November 2024)
Amended by 1989 c.647 §1; 2015 c.629 §7
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.
The following marriages are prohibited; and, if solemnized within this state, are absolutely void:
(1) When either party thereto had a spouse living at the time of the marriage.
(2) When the parties thereto are first cousins or any nearer of kin to each other, whether of the whole or half blood, whether by blood or adoption, computing by the rules of the civil law, except that when the parties are first cousins by adoption only, the marriage is not prohibited or void.
Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.