There is an extensive literature linking marital conflict to youth outcomes. There are relatively few studies that investigate these relationships in the Latino culture. With Latinos now comprising the largest minority population in the United States, it is important to understand the association between the variables of marital conflict and youth in Latino families. Furthermore, the issues of generalizability across gender, differentiation between overt and covert marital conflict, and the need to address both externalized and internalized problems among children warrant further research in this area. Data for the study come from an analysis of 788 Latino and 751 European American adolescents living in west Texas. Self-reports of adolescents were used to measure youth externalizing and internalizing behaviors, along with overt and covert marital conflict. The data were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) procedures. Results indicated an overall direct and significant association between marital conflict and youth outcomes regardless of ethnic group and that these associations were similarly related for the differential effects of overt and covert marital conflict on externalizing and internalizing behaviors. Furthermore, the association between overt marital conflict type and externalizing youth outcomes was significantly greater than the relationship between covert conflict type and externalizing behaviors, regardless of ethnicity and gender. These results support existing literature with European Americans that posits a direct effect between marital conflict and youth outcomes, demonstrating a similar association for Latino families. However, the association between covert marital conflict type and internalizing youth outcomes was not significantly greater than the relationship between overt marital conflict type and internalizing behaviors for any group, as previously hypothesized. More importantly, this study indicates the significant impact of overt marital conflict on externalizing and internalizing youth behaviors. Research linking the association between marital conflict and youth maladjustment in EA populations can be extended into application with Latinos. This study demonstrates that Latino youth report significantly more exposure than European Americans to overt and covert marital conflict and consequent externalizing behaviors. The results of this study help clinicians working with Latino families to understand the important risk factor that marital conflict can have on youth problem behaviors.