N.Y. Domestic Relations Law § 7: Voidable marriages
Where this section sits in the code
- Domestic Relations Law
- 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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