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                         I want to marry my mum-in-law

   A MAN from Warrington is hoping to marry his mother-in-law following a
   new legal ruling.

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   A MAN from Warrington is hoping to marry his mother-in-law following a
   new legal ruling.
   Clive Blunden, 51, and his partner Brenda, 63, got together 17 years
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   booking a register office and having their marriage banns read out.
   Now, they are hoping to tie the knot after another man and his
   daughter-in-law, also from Warrington, won the backing of the European
   Court of Human Rights in their fight to marry.
   "Iʼd marry Brenda tomorrow," said Clive, "I just need to be sure we are
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   one knee in the garden and asked me to marry him."
   The ruling by the European Court of Human Rights does not mean that
   in-laws can now automatically marry but has paved the way for a change
   in British legislation, after ruling that denying in-laws the right to
   marry was a breach of their human rights.
   The couple who brought the case were a 58-year-old man and 32-year-old
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   Breakdown
   The man, referred to in court as B, had been living with his
   daughter-in-law, known as L, and her son since 1996, and the court
   heard that her son called her partner "dad" although he was in fact his
   grandfather.
   Their relationship had also started following the breakdown of the
   daughter-in-lawʼs marriage to her partnerʼs son.
   In its ruling, the court said: "Since no incest or other criminal law
   provisions prevented extra-marital relationships between parents-in-law
   and children-in-law, it could not be said the ban on the applicantsʼ
   marriage prevented the second applicantʼs son from being exposed to any
   alleged confusion or emotional insecurity."
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   legal steps following the Courtʼs judgement.

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