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Nepotism

Article VII, Section 6 of the Missouri Constitution states the following: 

"Any public officer or employee in this state who by virtue of his office or employment names or appoints to public office or employment any relative within the fourth degree, by consanguinity or affinity, shall thereby forfeit his office or employment." 


Relations to the 4th Degree
Self or Spouse

First Degree
Child                     Parents

Second Degree
      Grandchild   Brother/Sister  Grandparents

Third Degree
Great Grandchild    Niece/Nephew    Aunt/Uncle
Great Grandparents

Fourth Degree
Great Great Grandchild       Grand Niece/Nephew
        First Cousin                Great Aunt/Uncle
    Great Great Grandparents

  1. A husband is related by marriage (affinity) to his wife’s relatives in the same way that she  is related to them by blood (consanguinity) and she to his family in the same way, but the kindred of the spouses are not related to one another.  (A brother of the husband is not related to a brother of the wife, et cetera.)

  2. Half relationship is the same as a whole relationship.

  3. Step relationship is the same as a blood relationship.

  4. A relationship by marriage (affinity) terminates if death or divorce occurs. 

Article VII Section 6
Section 168.126

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