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Tex. Fam. Code § 6.201 (2026)

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Sec. 6.201. CONSANGUINITY. A marriage is void if one party to the marriage is related to the other as:

(1) an ancestor or descendant, by blood or adoption;

(2) a brother or sister, of the whole or half blood or by adoption;

(3) a parent's brother or sister, of the whole or half blood or by adoption; or

(4) a son or daughter of a brother or sister, of the whole or half blood or by adoption.

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 7, Sec. 1, eff. April 17, 1997.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 16 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 2000–2023 · leading case: Arteaga v. State, 521 S.W.3d 329 (Tex. Crim. App. 2017).
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Arteaga v. State, 521 S.W.3d 329 (Tex. Crim. App. 2017). · cites it 4× “4 Tex. Fam. Code § 6.201. There was, however, no mention of the consanguinity statute in the application portion of the charge, and the jury was instructed that it could convict Arteaga only under the circumstances alleged in the indictment (i.”
Robert Michael Arteaga, Jr. v. State, 511 S.W.3d 675 (Tex. App.—Corpus Christi 2015). · cites it 7× “” 2 See TEX. FAMILY CODE ANN. § 6.201 (West, Westlaw through 2015 R.”
In re State of Texas, 466 S.W.3d 783 (Tex. 2015). “Laws voiding marriages between certain close relatives, see Tex. Fam. Code § 6.201, prove this point.”
Senn v. State, 551 S.W.3d 172 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth 2017). “See generally Tex. Fam. Code Ann. § 6.201 (1) (West 2006) (stating that marriage is void if one party to the marriage is related to the other as a descendant by blood or adoption).”
Jenkins-Dyer v. Exxon Mobil Corp., 651 F. App'x 810 (10th Cir. 2016). “4 A marriage is void in Texas if it is entered into: (1) between persons of close consanguinity, Tex. Fam. Code Ann. § 6.201 ; (2) when one putative spouse is still married to another person, id.”
State v. Johnson, 967 N.W.2d 242 (Neb. 2021). “See, also, Tex. Fam. Code Ann. § 6.201 et seq. (2006 & Cum.”
Jawed Manjlai v. Nabila Hamid Manjlai, 447 S.W.3d 376 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2014). “See Tex. Family Code Ann. § 6.201 , et seq. (West 2014).”
Anna Marie Herzfeld Allebach v. Julie Elizabeth Schmidt Gollub, No. 14-22-00272-CV (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] Feb. 23, 2023). · cites it 3× “See Tex. Fam. Code § 6.201–.206. To challenge a void marriage, a party must bring a suit to declare the marriage void.”
Arteaga, Robert Michael Jr., No. PD-1648-15 (Tex. Crim. App. Dec. 18, 2015). · cites it 4× “” 2 See TEX. FAMILY CODE ANN. § 6.201 (West, Westlaw through 2015 R.”
Michael Ray Senn v. State, No. 02-15-00201-CR (Tex. App.—Fort Worth Oct. 15, 2020). · cites it 2× “[8] Thus, the bigamy statute is “law applicable to the case” and should have been included in the charge because the jury had to understand what 8 The abstract portion of the charge in Arteaga included Texas Family Code Section 6.201, which defines when a marriage is void based…”
Robert Michael Arteaga Jr. v. State, No. 13-13-00612-CR (Tex. App.—Corpus Christi Oct. 22, 2015). · cites it 2× “] This language tracks the provisions of Texas Family Code section 6.201, titled “Consanguinity.”
Anthony Torres v. State, No. 03-14-00712-CR (Tex. App.—Austin July 21, 2017). “4 (citing Tex. Fam. Code § 6.201). 28 Id. at *3-4. 29 Id.”
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Tex. Fam. Code § 6.201(4): 1 case
Anna Marie Herzfeld Allebach v. Julie Elizabeth Schmidt Gollub, No. 14-22-00272-CV (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] Feb. 23, 2023). “See Tex. Fam. Code § 6.201–.206. To challenge a void marriage, a party must bring a suit to declare the marriage void.”
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