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I truly did not know if they could legally consent to it. And if they are legally married; are they now the medical and financial next of kin for each other?

Please forgive my ignorance as I am genuinely interested to know. I am in the medical field and every patient I have come across that has down syndrome or some other intellectual disability has a guardian or next of kin that signs medical consents and that sort of thing on their behalf. 

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In California, they are considered legal adults who can sign for themselves unless the parents have a conservatorship.  In this case, I don't think either Cristina or Angel is conserved, but even if they were, their conservators (presumably the parents) could allow them to be legally married.  Yes, there have been cases of people with developmental disabilities having a ceremony that wasn't a legal marriage, but in this case it is.

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