It is illegal to get married if you have a venereal disease.
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Added: 2026/3/18
The Law
As part of public health initiatives from the early 1900s, Nebraska law decreed that individuals afflicted with venereal diseases could not legally enter into matrimony. While completely unenforced today, the statute remains on the books as a relic of pre-antibiotic health panics.
Source & Citation
Code/Statute: Nebraska Revised Statutes § 42-102
Nebraska Domestic Relations Code
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