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I've been looking up something and came up with nothing. Actually not what I was looking for.
The question is...
If when my mom married my dad and my aunt likes a cousin on my fathers side and they marry what would that make her? I know she would be my Aunt but would she also be a Cousin in Law?
Also would that be permissible by law? I know where we talk about where we marry our cousins but I've not been able to find anything on the other side of the family.
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It is certainly permissible if the aunt is on your mother's side
And I believe in some states, it might be legal even if she were on your father's side.
My grandparent's on my dad's side had 12 children each. They lived in a very small town in the late 1800's in Iowa.
I do not know the exact relationships, but there were 7 marriages between my grandfather's brothers and sisters with the same number, (though opposite gender), of my grandmother's sisters and brothers. This left a lot of double first cousins. (At least that is the only way we have been able to figure out what to call the relationships).
In your case, I do not know if you would have 2 names for the relationship. I know I'd just continue to call her my aunt.
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
Holly
Yes it is legal..
But the whole relations tingy is very confusing times, I have a friend that grew up with and married their first cousin, she's went to being male and he female and have adopted 4 kids...
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It Was Very Common When My Grandparents Grew Up
My grandparents lived on adjoining farms and they and their brothers and sisters would meet to walk to school. Of course they fell in love with each other, but their brothers and sisters courted each other's siblings for a short time. They knew several families that did have multiple siblings marry into each family. The kids born into their families were referred to as double cousins. My sister-in-law lives in a small town in Eastern Kentucky and she had an awful time trying to date in high school. Every time she came home and told her mother that so and so was cute, and she wanted to date them, her mother would say "I'm sorry, but he's your cousin" She met my brother in college and they later married. She jokes that she had to leave town to find a man who wasn't related to her and we get a good laugh out of it.
That would make her from
That would make her from Kentucky. :P
Or
Or from West VA.
Baggins?
"Baggins? Sure I know a Baggins! Frodo Baggins! He's over there. He's my second cousin, once removed on his mother's side ..."
And my niece on his father's side?
Love, Andrea Lena
Cousins marrying
that explains a lot, presumably they were all republicans ;)
Angharad
Never
Never, never, never will we admit we were Republicans. I don't care what my card says I'll die a Repulicrate until the day I get my new visa card.
Thanks for your answers
Thanks for the answers.
Relationship terms
Here's a site I found that explains relationship terms. I'm not sure where I found the ref - it could even have been here. http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/relation.htm
As far as whether the relationship is legal, I'd check with the state you live (lived) in.
Xaltatun
Aunts and Cousins unless
Aunts and Cousins unless related by blood can legally marry, and blood relations may marry if they are at least second cousins.
May Your Light Forever Shine
Cousins
The cousin thing would vary from country to country, and likely from state to state too, but generaly it's by blood not marriage. Though in some cases if it was illegal for your ex/late spouse it could be illegal for you.
Duelling Banjos
Remember "Deliverance"
Joanne
I prefer
I prefer not to. ;)
I like the dueling banjo's but the kid is creepy.
Actually Billy Redden is neither. He just had the look.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Redden
And he couldn't play either. :)