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The man filed a lawsuit with the Justice of New York to marry, but asked to keep his identity in reserve, because “a large segment of society can consider it morally, socially and biologically disgusting.”
The man lives in New York, United States and wants to marry his adult son, for this reason he is suing before the federal court in Manhattan to revoke the laws that prohibit incestuous practice, calling it “individual autonomy.” The data of both were not disclosed, although the news was confirmed by The New York Post newspaper.
Both the father and his biological son seek to remain anonymous because the request is “an action that a large segment of society considers morally, socially and biologically disgusting,” according to court documents.
“Through the lasting bond of marriage, two people, regardless of the relationship they may have with each other, can find a greater level of expression, intimacy and spirituality,” argues the father in the lawsuit before the federal court in Manhattan filed on 1 of April.
The court papers do not reveal details of the gender of both nor the ages, location or the context of the relationship. However, it was reported that the child would be a person of legal age: “The proposed spouses are adults (…) And they cannot procreate together.”
Current New York law considers incest a “third degree felony”, with penalties of up to 4 years in jail. Furthermore, marriages performed in this context are immediately annulled, and the “spouses” must pay heavy fines or serve in prison.
For this reason, as long as the laws prohibiting incest are not declared unconstitutional and unenforceable, the father will not propose to his son, since he would “have to bear the emotional damage” of not being able to be legally married.
Marriage licenses in New York’s five boroughs require potential spouses to list their biological parents and attest that there are “no legal impediments to the marriage,” according to the City Clerk’s Office.
In 2014, a state appeals court unanimously approved a case involving a woman married to her mother’s half-brother, noting that the genetic relationship was the equivalent of first cousins. But even that sentence cited “the almost universal horror” with which a marriage between parents and children is viewed.
The father asked the local courts to declare the laws unconstitutional and inapplicable in his case, which the lawsuit calls “PAACNP” for couples of “non-reproducible adult parents and children.”
“There are known cases of parents separating from their children in infancy, only to reunite decades later and become romantic,” said Sylvia Law, a law professor at New York University.
Manhattan marriage and family law attorney Eric Wrubel said the case will not go through. And he cited a well-known example: “The closest you can get is Woody Allen, and that wasn’t his daughter, it was an adopted girl who he never adopted and still turns people’s stomachs,” he said.
Woody Allen with his wife Soon-Yi, adopted daughter of his ex-wife
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Soon-Yi is the adoptive daughter of Mia Farrow, Allen’s ex-partner, so he was her adoptive stepfather before her husband. At the time it raised a lot of controversy and, today, the case is still very controversial.
Source: Clarín
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