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Some states prohibiting cousin marriage recognize cousin marriages performed in other states, but despite occasional claims that this holds true in general, [5] laws also exist that explicitly void all foreign cousin marriages or marriages conducted by state residents out of state.
In re the Marriage of Earl E. Adams: December 31, 1979: Supreme Court of Montana: Held that a first cousin marriage in Montana, where it was prohibited and where the courts were bound to declare it as void, was indeed void. The wife received no portion of the estate. In the Matter of the Estate of Owen C. Loughmiller, Deceased: June 10, 1981
Until the mid-1800s cousin marriage in the U.S. was favored by the upper class as a way to hold onto wealth. The rise in the ease of travel, though, opened the world and more suitors.
A cousin marriage is a marriage where the spouses are cousins (i.e. people with common grandparents or people who share other fairly recent ancestors). The practice was common in earlier times and continues to be common in some societies today, though in some jurisdictions such marriages are prohibited. [1]
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Global prevalence of consanguine marriage (marriage between two family members who have coefficient of relationship r = 3.125% or higher), illustrating a higher prevalence of cousin marriage in the Middle East in 2013. Globally, 8.5% of children have consanguineous parents, and 20% of the human population live in communities practicing endogamy.
An MP has spoken against calls to ban first-cousin marriage in the UK, and suggested “advanced genetic test screening” is made available to prospective couples. Independent Iqbal Mohamed said ...