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N.Y. Domestic Relations Law § 7: Voidable marriages

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  1. Domestic Relations Law
  2. Article 2. Marriages

§ 7. Voidable marriages. A marriage is void from the time its nullity

is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction if either party

thereto:

1. Is under the age of legal consent, which is eighteen years;

2. Is incapable of consenting to a marriage for want of understanding;

3. Is incapable of entering into the married state from physical

cause;

4. Consent to such marriage by reason of force, duress or fraud;

5. Has been incurably mentally ill for a period of five years or more.

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