Legal Question in Family Law in California

Marriage of first cousins

We have just heard that friends are having a wedding on October 17th in California. The bride and groom are first cousins! Neither were adopted--they are blood relatives. Their mothers are sisters! They have the same grandparents.

Is this legal?

Shouldn't it be stopped?

Does a wedding license discover this, and prevent it?

These are young people, ages 22 and 25, and they plan to have children!

Has this somehow become acceptable because prenatal tests can determine birth defects, and a fetus aborted?

Do taxpayers become responsible for defective offspring?

The bride is from Mexico; is it acceptable there?

We are ill over this...can anything be done?

The mother of the groom told us flat out that this was wonderful!

Help!


Asked on 10/07/03, 12:40 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Alvin Lundgren Alvin R. Lundgren, L.C.

Re: Marriage of first cousins

Bring it to the attention of the county clerk in the county in which the wedding license was issued.

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Answered on 10/07/03, 2:41 pm


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