Alpo Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 I've seen this scenario in a couple of books. Louis L'Amour Kiowa Trail had it. We have the grown sister and the brother who is about 10 years or so younger. Parents are dead, so sister is the head of the family. Sister gets married and husband adopts the boy. Since they are a married couple, would they both have to adopt the boy? Thus changing the girl from being his sister into being his mother? Or could part of the married couple adopt, while the other part of the couple didn't? So the husband would be the boy's father while the wife would still be the boy's sister? I'm My own Grandpa It sounds funny I know But it really is so I'm My own Grandpa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 24 minutes ago, Alpo said: I'm My own Grandpa You asked for it: Now, many many years agoWhen I was twenty threeI was married to a widowWho was pretty as could be This widow had a grown-up daughterHad hair of redMy father fell in love with herAnd soon the two were wed This made my dad my son-in-lawAnd changed my very lifeMy daughter was my mother'Cause she was my father's wife To complicate the mattersEven though it brought me joyI soon became the fatherOf a bouncing baby boy My little baby then becameA brother-in-law to dadAnd so became my uncleThough it made me very sad For if he was my uncleThat also made him the brotherOf the widow's grown-up daughterWho, of course, was my step-mother I'm my own grandpaI'm my own grandpaIt sounds funny I knowBut it really is soI'm my own grandpa My father's wife then had a sonThat kept them on the runAnd he became my grandchildFor he was my daughter's son My wife is now my mother's motherAnd it makes me blueBecause, she is my wifeShe's my grandmother too I'm my own grandpaI'm my own grandpaIt sounds funny I knowBut it really is soI'm my own grandpa Now, if my wife is my grandmotherThen, I am her grandchildAnd every time I think of itIt nearly drives me wild For now I have becomeThe strangest case you ever sawAs husband of my grandmotherI am my own grandpa I'm my own grandpaI'm my own grandpaIt sounds funny I knowBut it really is soI'm my own grandpa I'm my own grandpaI'm my own grandpaIt sounds funny I knowBut it really is soI'm my own grandpa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 My head hurts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Joker Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 Frontier life had very few formalities. Likely her husband accepted responsibility for the boys actions and took on the mantle of 'teaching him what he needs to know' to be a man in the community. She stayed his sister and he was raised by his uncle. What's wierd about that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted January 16, 2022 Author Share Posted January 16, 2022 I realize frontier life had a few formalities. The story I'm reading now we have Tara, who is 23. Her little brother Derek is 13. Their parents are dead. She just married Aaron. Aaron told her that if Derek was okay with it, he planned to adopt the boy. This is not frontier times. This is nowadays. Ignoring, for the moment, that the wife is the sister of the perspective child, if the husband in a relationship wished to adopt a child, would the wife also have to adopt the child? That's the question I have. Let's say Father Kit (picking on him simply because I know he's married) saw this little orphan kid and decided he wished to adopt it. Would his wife also have to adopt it, so that the two of them would be father and mother, or would the powers that be allow him alone to adopt it, making him the child's father and his wife the child's stepmother? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Joker Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 No idea there. Wait patiently while I Google it...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michigan Slim Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 It's been 25 minutes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bob Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 Just now, Michigan Slim said: It's been 25 minutes! He said patiently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michigan Slim Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 Just now, Buckshot Bob said: He said patiently I'm good for 24 minutes!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawMan Mark, SASS #57095L Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 It's legal for a single individual to adopt, so yes, the male could adopt the younger brother of his wife, without her changing her status to the brother. I have more than one set of friends who have went through the legal process to adopt their own grandchildren, which in effect, makes them the siblings of the birth parent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gracos Kid Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 I know a guy who divorced his wife, then married her mother, so he immediately became his own son's GRANDPA.... and you would not believe how ugly the mother-in-law was.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485 Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 I dated a girl for a while whose parents got divorced and her mother married her fathers brother. She had a whole skit like the story above,I think she was her own cousin, used to call her father "uncle daddy". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 There are a few variables that come in here. State law and the Common Law which differs in many states. You have English Common Law in the North and East, Spanish Common Law in much of the Southwest. And French Common Law gets squeezed in there too. Soooo, the answer is, it depends. I feel so good to have answered your question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bob Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 I worked with a guy that started fooling around with his sister in law “wife’s sister” . He had kids with the wife and the sister . Made for some interesting family holiday get together stories. I’m sure it will confuse someone looking up that family tree 100 years from now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted January 16, 2022 Author Share Posted January 16, 2022 Webcomic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 Haven't heard "I'm My Own Grandpa!" in years. Still get a kick out of it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 Is this thread "saloon worthy?" Will Alpo be rebuked by Pat Riot? The tension is more than I can take. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 Not quite on point but many years ago my best friend in college got married to a woman with a child. He adopted the child. A few years later the woman dumps my friend and moves in with her ex-husband (i.e., the child's father) After a divorce and remarriage the ex-wife now married to her ex-husband and child of the father sues for child support and gets it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 3 hours ago, Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 said: Not quite on point but many years ago my best friend in college got married to a woman with a child. He adopted the child. A few years later the woman dumps my friend and moves in with her ex-husband (i.e., the child's father) After a divorce and remarriage the ex-wife now married to her ex-husband and child of the father sues for child support and gets it. I knew a fella in the Bay Area that happened to. He married a gal with two or three kids. He adopted the kids, then she dumped him. Poor guy worked three jobs to pay the child support; he made a bunch of money and was dirt poor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 Oy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 Vay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smuteye John SASS#24774 Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 On 1/16/2022 at 8:13 AM, Texas Joker said: Frontier life had very few formalities. Likely her husband accepted responsibility for the boys actions and took on the mantle of 'teaching him what he needs to know' to be a man in the community. She stayed his sister and he was raised by his uncle. What's wierd about that? Actually, he'd be his brother in law, not his uncle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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