Certain marriages prohibited
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case Bostic v. Schaefer (2014)
Most recently applied in Richard S. Levick v. Deborah MacDougall (February 2016)
1975, c. 644; 1978, c. 647; 2020, c. 900.
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:
1. A marriage entered into prior to the dissolution of an earlier marriage of one of the parties;
2. A marriage between an ancestor and descendant, or between siblings, whether the relationship is by the half or the whole blood or by adoption;
3. A marriage between an uncle or aunt and a nephew or niece, whether the relationship is by the half or the whole blood.
Official source: Virginia Law Portal (LIS). Reproduced from public-domain Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.