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Home 2. News 3. Greater Manchester News News 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. * Share * * * * * * * * By Manchester Evening News * 08:39, 23 SEP 2005 * Updated02:46, 18 JAN 2013 News 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 ago when Clive was separated from Brendaʼs daughter. They tried to marry 12 years ago, but were stopped by police after 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 allowed. Itʼs not like there are problems in the family, everything is great." Arrested The couple fell in love in 1989 when Clive went to visit his children at Brendaʼs house, four years after his marriage to Brendaʼs daughter had broken up. They tried to marry in 1993 but police arrested Clive when he set a date for them to marry at Southport Register Office. Clive and Brenda claim they have been treated as "outcasts" because of their relationship. Brenda, who has already changed her name to Blunden by deed poll, said: "When we heard about this hearing, I was so excited. Clive got down on 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 woman who wanted to remain anonymous. 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." The ruling is not binding under British law until the government takes legal steps following the Courtʼs judgement. Should a parent-in-law be allowed to marry their child-in-law? 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