Sec. 573.025. COMPUTATION OF DEGREE OF AFFINITY. (a) A husband and wife are related to each other in the first degree by affinity. For other relationships by affinity, the degree of relationship is the same as the degree of the underlying relationship by consanguinity. For example: if two individuals are related to each other in the second degree by consanguinity, the spouse of one of the individuals is related to the other individual in the second degree by affinity.
(b) An individual's relatives within the third degree by affinity are:
(1) anyone related by consanguinity to the individual's spouse in one of the ways named in Section 573.023(c); and
(2) the spouse of anyone related to the individual by consanguinity in one of the ways named in Section 573.023(c).
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Structure Texas Statutes
Title 5 - Open Government; Ethics
Chapter 573 - Degrees of Relationship; Nepotism Prohibitions
Subchapter B. Relationships by Consanguinity or by Affinity
Section 573.021. Method of Computing Degree of Relationship
Section 573.022. Determination of Consanguinity
Section 573.023. Computation of Degree of Consanguinity