Tex. Fam. Code § 6.201 · Subchapter C. DECLARING A MARRIAGE VOID
CONSANGUINITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 7, Sec. 1, eff. April 17, 1997.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/FA/htm/FA.6.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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