Affinity (law)

kinship created as a result of someone's marriage with blood relatives of the other spouse

thumb|Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (seated) with his two sons-in-law, Princes [[Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Gaston of Orléans, during the Paraguayan War, 1865]] A parent-in-law is a person who has a legal affinity with another by being the parent of the other's spouse. Many cultures and legal systems impose duties and responsibilities on persons connected by this relationship. A person is a child-in-law to the parents of the spouse, who are in turn also the parents of those sibling-in-laws (if any) who are siblings of the spouse (as opposed to spouses of siblings). Together, the m

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thumb|The Father-in-Law, a 1888 painting by Vladimir Makovsky Traditional practice until the beginning of the 20th century"In Russia during the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries, snokhachestvo was a rather widespread type of sexual crime. [...] With the modernization taking place in Russia during this time, the countryside witnessed: the disintegration of large patriarchal families into small nuclear families, and the gradual transition of the majority of the peasantry from the traditional sphere of customary law to the official normative one. This led to significant emancipatio

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Sobriquet of two European kings