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New Civil Code Article 380 - Restrictions to contract a marriage

Book 2 : Title III: Ch I : Sec I : Article 380

Article 380 - Restrictions to contract a marriage. The following cannot get married: (a) people who are united by a marriage bond; (b) people who have not reached eighteen (18) years of age; (c) ascendants and descendants by consanguinity or adoption; (d) collateral relatives by consanguinity or adoption up to the third degree; (e) the ascendants and descendants by affinity in the straight line, if from the marriage that created the affinity children were born who have blood ties with both spouses; and (f) people convicted, in any participation, of the intentional death of the spouse of any of them. (Translated) <<<>>>> (Original Spanish) Artículo 380.-Impedimentos para contraer matrimonio. No pueden contraer matrimonio: (a) las personas que están unidas por un vínculo matrimonial; (b) las personas que no han cumplido dieciocho (18) años de edad; (c) los ascendientes y los descendientes por consanguinidad o por adopción; (d) los parientes colaterales por consanguinidad o por adopción hasta el tercer grado; (e) los ascendientes y los descendientes por afinidad en la línea recta, si del matrimonio que creó la afinidad nacieron hijos que tienen lazos consanguíneos con ambos contrayentes; y (f) las personas convictas, en cualquier participación, de la muerte dolosa del cónyuge de cualquiera de ellas.

New Civil Code Nov. 2020


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