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Fla. Stat. § 741.21 (2025)
Incestuous marriages prohibited.
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741.21 Incestuous marriages prohibited.—A man may not marry any woman to whom he is related by lineal consanguinity, nor his sister, nor his aunt, nor his niece. A woman may not marry any man to whom she is related by lineal consanguinity, nor her brother, nor her uncle, nor her nephew.
History.—RS 2602; GS 3525; RGS 5415; CGL 7558.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5
cases, 1963–2017 · leading case: Glenda Martinez Smith v. J. Alan Smith, 224 So. 3d 740 (Fla. 2017).
Glenda Martinez Smith v. J. Alan Smith, 224 So. 3d 740 (Fla. 2017). “§ 741.21, Fla. Stat. (2016); Jones v. Jones, 161 So.”
Glenda Martinez Smith v. J. Alan Smith, 199 So. 3d 911 (Fla. 4th DCA 2016). “See § 741.21, Fla. Stat. (2013). On the other hand, a marriage is merely voidable where the marriage is not absolutely illegal and the parties could ratify it.”
Beam v. State, 1 So. 3d 331 (Fla. 5th DCA 2009). “Section 741.21, Florida Statutes (2006), provides: “A man may not marry any woman to whom he is related by lineal consanguinity, nor his sister, nor his aunt, nor his niece.”
Hall v. MAAL, 32 So. 3d 682 (Fla. 1st DCA 2010). “§§ 741.21, 741.212, Fla. Stat. (2002). The Legislature is quite capable of writing a strict statute that prohibits an exception for unlicensed marriages.”
Ronalder v. State, 149 So. 2d 581 (Fla. 3d DCA 1963). “, and in a separate informations charged with incest as provided against by §§ 741.21 and 741.22, Fla.Stat., F.S.A. The parties with whom he was involved were his daughters, aged ten and thirteen years at the time of the trial.”
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