What Relation?

[hippyhoppy]

what relation to me is my husbands cusion? (ps I cant spell)

[ubasses]

None, unless you want to call her Cousin-in-law

[Buenchico]

There is no (commonly used) formal definition of any such relationship, since 'cousins' need to have a grandparent in common, 'second cousins' need to have a great-grandparent in common etc.

Where the link between two people is, for example, the grandparent of one person but the great-grandparent of the other, then 'once removed' is added to explain things. However a link through marriage is not generally recognised as creating a relationship for cousins.

Even so, Wikipedia recognises that some people might use the term 'cousin-in-law' for the relationship between you and your husband's cousin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin

[jourdain2]

We used to use the term 'cousin once removed'.

[Buenchico]

^^^ Obviously incorrectly then, Jourdain2, since your (first) cousin once removed is either the child of your (first) cousin or the (first) cousin of your parent. It's the gap of a generation that creates the 'removed' status; there is no such equivalent for the distance created through marriage.

[melv16]

In East Anglia it could be your brother :-)

[Svejk]

Pin-Law?

[Jackdaw33]

It goes down generations.

The Queen and the Duke of Kent are first cousins.

Prince Charles is his first cousin once removed.

Prince William is his first cousin twice removed.

Prince George is his first cousin thrice removed.

I could go on...

[Canary42]

melv: Not just East Anglia, this example would under English law, be a quite legitimate relationship. If you marry your cousin, then you and all your siblings are his cousins.

[Hypognosis]

@HippyHoppy

Heirhunters is back on, in the mornings so, if you are thinking about this in terms of what she might inherit, I think that, if he dies before you and he made no will, you get the lot. But, if you like her lots, she gets nothing, if you died without a will since, by then, she's only an in-law and the automatic rules pass everything to offspring or other next of kin, as set out in the rules (which I cannot describe in detail, not having read them myself).

Basically, if you want any control, make a will. Yes, it will cost but consider it as a big gift, for them to remember you by.

[jourdain2]

Wow! Thank you Buenchico. :)