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Marriage query

(Querist) 26 April 2017 This query is : Resolved 
Can I marry, my mothers fathers mother married twice her first husband had 2 kids, my my grandfather and his sister, then after his death she married her husbands fathers elder brothers son in that she again had 2 daughters in that the second daughters daughter got married to any family she has a daughter so I want to marry her can I do that. In short my grandfathers step sisters daughters daughter is my girl can I go for it. Please make a note she his step sisters daughter
Sudhir Kumar, Advocate (Expert) 26 April 2017
very confusing. as long as gotra of all found grandparents does not clash you can marry.
Guest (Expert) 26 April 2017
Vague query.
P. Venu (Expert) 26 April 2017
What is the opinion of your/her parents and relatives?
Rajendra K Goyal (Expert) 26 April 2017
Degree of Prohibited relationship as per the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955

Section 3 (f):

i. "Sapinda relationship" with reference to any person extends as far as the third generation (inclusive) in the line of ascent through the mother, and the fifth (inclusive) in the line of ascent through the father, the line being traced upwards in each case from the person concerned, who is to be counted as the first generation;

ii. two persons are said to "sapindas" of each other if one is a lineal ascendant of the other within the limits of sapinda relationship, or if they have a common lineal ascendant who is within the limits of sapinda relationship with reference to each of them;

Section 3 (g):

"degrees of prohibited relationship" – two persons are said to be within the "degrees of prohibited relationship" –

if one is a lineal ascendant of the other; or
if one was the wife or husband of a lineal ascendant or descendant of the other; or
if one was the wife of the brother or the father’s or mother’s brother or of the grandfather’s or grandmother’s brother; or
if the two are brother and sister, uncle and niece, aunt and nephew, or children of brother and sister or of two brothers or of two sisters;

Explanation – For the purposes of clauses 3(f) and 3(g), relationship includes –

relationship by half or uterine blood as well as by full blood;
illegitimate blood relationship as well as legitimate;
relationship by adoption as well as by blood;
and all terms of relationship in those clauses shall be construed accordingly.

Degrees of Prohibited relationship as per the Special Marriage Act, 1954

Section 2 (b):

"Degrees of prohibited relationship" – a man and any of the persons mentioned in Part I of the First Schedule and a woman and any of the persons mentioned in Part II of the said Schedule are within the degrees of prohibited relationship.

Explanation (I) – Relationship includes, --

relationship by half or uterine blood as well as by full blood;

illegitimate blood relationship as well as legitimate;
relationship by adoption as well as by blood;
and all terms of relationship in this Act shall be construed accordingly.

Explanation (II) – "Full blood" and "half blood" – two persons are said to be related to each other by full blood when they are descended from a common ancestor by the same wife and by half blood when they are descended from a common ancestor but by different wives.

Explanation (III) – "Uterine blood" – two persons are said to be related to each other by uterine blood when they are descended from a common ancestress but by different husbands.

Explanation (IV) – In Explanations II and III, "ancestor" includes the father and "ancestress" the mother;


THE FIRST SCHEDULE [ DEGREE OF PROHIBITED RELATIONSHIP]

PART – I

Mother.
Father’s widow (step mother).
Mother’s mother.
Mother’s father’s widow (step grand-mother).
Mother’s mother’s mother.
Mother’s mother’s father’s widow (step great grand-mother).

Mother's father’s mother.
Mother’s father’s father’s widow (step great grand-mother).
Father’s mother.
Father’s father’s widow (step grand-mother).
Father’s mother’s mother.
Father’s mother’s father’s widow (step great grand-mother).
Father’s father’s mother.
Father’s father’s father’s widow (step great grand-mother).
Daughter.
Son’s widow.
Daughter’s daughter.
Daughter’s son’s widow.
Son’s daughter.
Son’s son’s widow.
Daughter’s daughter’s daughter.
Daughter’s daughter’s son’s widow.
Daughter’s son’s daughter.
Daughter’s son’s son’s widow.
Son’s daughter’s daughter.
Son’s daughter’s son’s widow.
Son’s son’s daughter.
Son’s son’s son’s widow.
Sister.
Sister’s daughter.
Brother’s daughter.
Mother’s sister.
Father’s sister.
Father’s brother’s daughter.
Fathe
Vivek (Querist) 26 April 2017
At last can I marry her
Dr J C Vashista (Expert) 27 April 2017
An academic vague question paper, not a real story or a query to be advised.
Guest (Expert) 27 April 2017
Your Step Sister's daughter is not your blood relative and so there could be no legal restrictions and all the best.
Kumar Doab (Expert) 27 April 2017
Also: If the custom permits marriage might be possible in relation.
Kumar Doab (Expert) 04 May 2017
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http://www.lawyersclubindia.com/experts/Marriage-query--640236.asp


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