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 There are now fewer restrictions on marriage in New York, though the change is probably not one you were expecting. 
  
 The state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the 14-year marriage of a Rochester man and his Vietnamese half-niece is legal under state law. The ruling is one of few regarding the marriage of a half-uncle or half-aunt to a half-niece or half-nephew in the state since such marriages were made illegal more than 100 years ago. 
  
 Huyen Nguyen, then 19, married her 24-year-old half-uncle, Vu Truong, in 2000. Nguyen's mother is Truong's half-sister. 
  
 In 2007, their union was brought before immigration officials who tried to send Nguyen home by declaring the marriage void. The 2nd Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals then asked the state's highest court for its opinion on the marriage's legality. 
  
 The court in a 6-0 decision declared the marriage "not void as incestuous." 
  
 Judge Robert Smith wrote that while state law prohibits primarily parent-child and brother-sister marriages — "grounded in the almost universal horror with which such marriages are viewed" — there is no comparably strong objection to uncle-niece marriages. Smith wrote that the domestic relations law prohibiting some whole- and half-blood marriages "has not been viewed as expressing strong condemnation of uncle-niece and aunt-nephew relationships." 
  
 He also wrote that both parties agreed that genetic risks of half-blood uncle-niece marriages are the same as that of first cousins, relations who can legally marry in New York. 
  
 "I conclude that it was not the Legislature's purpose to avert the similar, relatively small, genetic risk inherent in relationship like this one," Smith wrote. 
  
 Judge Victoria Graffeo wrote in her concurring opinion that the court didn't receive any scientific evidence that would allow it to draw a conclusion about the genetic ramifications of such half-blood marriages. 
  
 Michael Marszalkowski, a Buffalo lawyer who represented Nguyen, said the couple's first reaction to the high court's decision was one of relief and joy. 
  
 "It's an incredible weight lifted off their shoulders," Marszalkowski said, later adding that the next step is to seek a green card from immigration authorities. "The husband was so happy." 
  
 Very few cases of this type of half-blood marriage have been brought before New York courts since 1893, when whole- and half-blood uncle-niece and aunt-nephew marriages were prohibited. 
  
 Marszalkowski called this case client-specific, and said his research suggested "less than a handful" of similar cases. 
  
 In the three instances when the matter came before state courts previously, "every one of those was a fight over money, so it was a question of someone trying to exclude someone else in using the relationship as a way to get an advantage," he said. 
  
 Albany Law professor Vincent Bonventre, one of the state's top court-watchers, said the decision would set precedent. "The court made it clear that its construction of the statute applies to criminal cases or civil cases: It's universally applicable," Bonventre said. "From now on, unless the Legislature changes the rule, a half-uncle is permitted to marry a half-niece." 
  
 mhamilton@timesunion.com • 518-454-5449 ||||| The case, Huyen Nguyen v. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, involves the federal government’s attempt to revoke Nguyen’s residency status. An immigration judge had ordered Nguyen deported on the grounds that her marriage to her half-uncle, Vu Truong, in Rochester in 2000 was a sham. 
  
 A half-uncle can marry his half-niece in New York, the state’s top court ruled Tuesday. 
  
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 A half-uncle can marry his half-niece in New York, the state’s top court ruled Tuesday. 
  
 The case, Huyen Nguyen v. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, involves the federal government’s attempt to revoke Nguyen’s residency status. An immigration judge had ordered Nguyen deported on the grounds that her marriage to her half-uncle, Vu Truong, in Rochester in 2000 was a sham. 
  
 Nguyen is fighting deportation and, as part of her appeal, asked the New York Court of Appeals whether marriage to her uncle violated the state’s prohibition against incestuous marriages. 
  
 In a 6-0 decision, the court said no, it doesn’t. Judge Robert Smith, in a concurring opinion, noted the two weren’t full-blood relatives and that it’s still legal for first cousins to marry in New York. 
  
 The ruling merely means that Nguyen can use it, in her deportation case, to claim her marriage was legitimate. ||||| ALBANY N.Y.Nearly a century after the same court annulled a marriage between an uncle and his half-niece, New York's top court said on Tuesday that a woman's union with her half-uncle was lawful. 
  
 U.S. immigration officials in 2007 said Vietnamese citizen Huyen Nguyen's marriage in 2000 to her mother's half-brother, U.S. citizen Vu Truong, was void and sought to deport her. A federal appeals court asked the New York Court of Appeals to decide whether such marriages were lawful. 
  
 Nguyen was aged 19 and Truong was 24 when they got married. 
  
 The U.S. Justice Department claimed an 1893 state law that bars marriages between "a brother and sister of either the whole or the half blood," as well as "uncles and nieces or aunts and nephews," applied to Nguyen and Truong. 
  
 Nguyen's attorneys countered that the law was designed to ensure stability within families and stave off the risks associated with close relatives having children. Neither of those concerns applied in Nguyen's case, they said. 
  
 In a 6-0 decision siding with Nguyen, Judge Robert Smith wrote, "First cousins are allowed to marry in New York, and I conclude that it was not the Legislature's purpose to avert the similar, relatively small, genetic risk inherent in relationships like this one." 
  
 The decision by the court in Albany, which allows Nguyen to remain in the United States, went against a 1921 ruling in which the court said a man's marriage to his half-brother's daughter was void. 
  
 Kathryn Audley had sought a divorce from her father's half-brother, whom she accused of adultery, but the court said it was unnecessary because the marriage was unlawful. 
  
 Nguyen's lawyer, Michael Marszalkowski, said he was pleased with Tuesday's ruling. 
  
 "This couple every day has worried about whether they have a future together," he said. 
  
 The U.S. Justice Department declined to comment. 
  
 According to court documents, Maine is the only state that expressly allows marriages between uncles and nieces or aunts and nephews. Courts in four states, including Kansas and Missouri, have upheld such marriages, while about 30 states have banned them. 
  
 The case is Huyen Nguyen v. Eric Holder, New York State Court of Appeals, No. 146. 
  
 (Reporting by Daniel Wiessner; Editing by Ted Botha and Richard Chang) |||||
Student:
Marriage rights are being expanded all across the nation, and New York's highest court has joined the club. Except, as the Albany Times Union notes, "the change is probably not one you were expecting." This one involves half-uncles and half-nieces, and from now on, marriages between them are legit in the state. This particular case goes back to 2000, when 19-year-old Huyen Nguyen wed half-uncle Vu Truong, 24. Her mother is his half-sister. All was well until 2007, when immigration officials seeking to deport Nguyen argued that her marriage was illegal given the blood, or at least half-blood, relations, reports Reuters. Not so, writes Judge Robert Smith: "First cousins are allowed to marry in New York, and I conclude that it was not the Legislature's purpose to avert the similar, relatively small, genetic risk inherent in relationships like this one." The deportation case continues, reports Newsday, but now Nguyen has a better chance of winning.