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New Jersey Statutes, Title: 37, MARRIAGES AND MARRIED PERSONS
Chapter 1: Certain marriages or civil unions prohibited.
Section: 37:1-1: Marriages and civil unions, limitations, certain.
37:1-1. Marriages and civil unions.
a. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2021, c.343)
b. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.2021, c.343)
c. Laws concerning marriage and civil union shall be read with gender- and race-neutral intent.
d. No person shall marry or enter into a civil union with any of the person's ancestors or descendants, or the person's sibling, or the child of the person's sibling, or the sibling of the person's parent, whether such collateral kindred be of the whole or half blood.
e. A marriage or civil union in violation of subsection d. of this section shall be absolutely void.
Amended 2006, c.103, s.6; 2021, c.343, s.2; 2023, c.154, s.3.
This section added to the Rutgers Database: 2024-01-26 13:00:29.
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