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A.R.S. § 13-3608: Incest Law

Incest; classification

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Is incest a crime in Arizona?

In Arizona, adults eighteen or older who are too closely related to legally marry commit a class 4 felony if they knowingly marry each other or knowingly have sexual relations with each other.

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13-3608. Incest; classification

Persons who are eighteen or more years of age and are within the degrees of consanguinity within which marriages are declared by law to be incestuous and void, who knowingly intermarry with each other, or who knowingly commit fornication or adultery with each other are guilty of a class 4 felony.

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