Incest is legal in New Jersey?
Ultra-Liberal state.
according to then article, yes. Chris Christie got some splainin to do.
is it?
I never knew that
Here is from Wikipedia:
In the United States the District of Columbia and every state and inhabited territory[citation needed] have some form of codified incest prohibition. In all states, incest is sexual activity between a lineal ancestor and a lineal descendant (parent, grandparent with child or grandchild), siblings (brother-sister) and aunt-nephew, uncle-niece.
However, individual statutes vary widely.
Rhode Island has repealed its criminal incest statute[67] and only criminalizes incestuous marriage.[68]
Ohio “targets only parental figures”,[67]
New Jersey does not apply any penalties when both parties are 18 years of age or older.[6][67]
A conviction for incest attracts the following maximal penalties by state:[citation needed]
5 years imprisonment in Hawaii,[67] Utah (even for first-cousin relations),[67] Florida
10 years imprisonment in Mississippi,[68] North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Minnesota
14 years imprisonment in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Idaho
15 years imprisonment in Connecticut,[dubious – discuss] Louisiana,[68] Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and West Virginia
20 years imprisonment in Massachusetts,[67] New York, New Hampshire, Maine, Pennsylvania, and Vermont
25 years imprisonment in Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky
10 to 30 years in Georgia (25-50 years for incest with a child under 14)[69]
Life imprisonment in Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina,[dubious – discuss] Montana[68] and Tennessee.
That explains Jersey Shore.