Marriage cannot be contracted with a lineal ancestor or descendant, nor the lineal ancestor or descendant of either parent, nor the child of a grandparent, nor the lineal descendants of husband or wife, as the case may be, nor the husband or wife of a parent or lineal descendant.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-101
Prohibited degrees of relationship
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Baskin v. Bogan (2014)
Most recently applied in Virginia Wolf v. Scott Walker (September 2014)
Code 1858, § 2436 (deriv
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