Re: My niece is also my sister-in-law
Okay, it's not so sinister as all that; her grandparents (my inlaws) adopted her when she turned eighteen, for some kind of social security benefit I don't know the details of. It's not a scam, though, as she had been living with them for two years. Seems adoption at 18 is just a matter of paperwork since there's no kind of custody rigamarole.<br /><br />But there's an even more interesting story on the wife's side of the family - this is the deep east Texas branch I'm talkin' 'bout.<br /><br />When Mrs. jtexas was fifteen, her first cousin "Danny," then eighteen picked up her other first cousin "Brenda," age fifteen, also "Danny's" first cousin, at the high school one morning. They drove to Oklahoma to be married by a Justice of the Peace there. Of course she had no ID to prove she was of age, so he (the JP) suggested she go down to the bait shop & get a fishing license. Apparently back then in OK you didn't need ID to get a fishing license, just fill in your DOB and "address." I guess you didn't need a blood test, either.<br /><br />Of course now, 30 years later, they're still happily married with two sons, one in college the other married with two kids of his own. But it took years and years for the family to get over that one.
