tango! ([info]so_scouse) wrote in [info]sg_ljers,
2006-09-12 19:18:00
Ok, I'm curious. Say Mr Y has 3 sons from a first marriage, and he marries Mrs T who also has 3 daughters from her first marriage. Would it be legal in the eyes of our law for Mr Y's son to marry Mrs T's daughter? In other words, is it legal for step sisters and step brothers to get married in Singapore?

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[info]so_scouse

September 12 2006, 11:39:49 UTC 5 years ago

hahahah that would seriously suck!

Anonymous

September 12 2006, 11:42:26 UTC 5 years ago

Why do you ask?

[info]so_scouse

September 12 2006, 11:46:07 UTC 5 years ago

oh because i read a fictional story about a situation like that and i'm really curious.

Anonymous

September 12 2006, 11:45:36 UTC 5 years ago

is this a developing plot line from the new season of 'stories of love'?

[info]so_scouse

September 12 2006, 11:46:39 UTC 5 years ago

er er noooo!! see my reply above.

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[info]so_scouse

September 12 2006, 12:02:13 UTC 5 years ago

aha i didn't think of that. i think you might be right.

[info]joshed_up

September 12 2006, 12:16:10 UTC 5 years ago

this is quite sick. i think its legal.

[info]buffseeds

September 12 2006, 12:32:54 UTC 5 years ago

Heh, you must have read fanfic or something.

I don't know really, it's a little screwed up that you can't date someone just because their dad decided to marry your mom or whatever.

[info]so_scouse

September 12 2006, 13:06:11 UTC 5 years ago

ya i did! hahah fictionpress.com

[info]asilverstar

September 13 2006, 10:42:06 UTC 5 years ago

i am such an addict. Haha. Reason and Romance, by any chance?

[info]so_scouse

September 13 2006, 11:26:02 UTC 5 years ago

OMG. HAHAHAHAHAH. yeah but i preferred her other stories! haha didn't you wonder whether marriage between a step bro/sis was allowed after reading that? hahaha

[info]asilverstar

5 years ago

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[info]deewhydeeax

September 12 2006, 12:57:31 UTC 5 years ago

Singapore's Penal Code says:

Any man who has carnal knowledge of a woman with or without her consent who is to his knowledge his grand-daughter, daughter, sister, half-sister or mother (whether such relationship is or is not traced through lawful wedlock); or

any woman of or above the age of 16 who with consent permits her grandfather, father, brother, half-brother or son (whether such relationship is or is not traced through lawful wedlock) to have carnal knowledge of her (knowing him to be her grandfather, father, brother, half-brother or son, as the case may be), is said to commit "incest."

I'm not sure how they define half-brother/ half-sister - does it only apply to those who have one parent in common :-???

[info]so_scouse

September 12 2006, 13:05:04 UTC 5 years ago

aha. ya precisely. i mean it doesn't really count as incest if your step brother/sister comes from an entirely different set of parents right?

Anonymous

September 12 2006, 13:43:07 UTC 5 years ago

half-brother/half-sister by definition are those with one parent in common. So technically you can marry your step-bro/sis as long as you don't share blood :)

[info]lctkw

September 12 2006, 13:13:52 UTC 5 years ago

http://app.rom.gov.sg/internet/efile/prohibited.htm

as far as i can see, there's no problem there.

[info]so_scouse

September 12 2006, 13:25:36 UTC 5 years ago

thanks but they didn't include like step fathers/mothers in there. so it doesn't really count? i think a case like that has never happened in singapore.

[info]lctkw

September 12 2006, 13:35:59 UTC 5 years ago

if you look carefully they actually list things like "Mother's husband" (as opposed to 'father'), so they already took step-parents into consideration.

this is the complete list of prohibited relationships from the ROM website, meaning that whatever they've left out is currently legal. i think.

[info]so_scouse

5 years ago

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[info]_mandasy

September 12 2006, 13:22:18 UTC 5 years ago

Its legal i think. Cause there're no blood relations at all. (:

[info]so_scouse

September 12 2006, 13:29:15 UTC 5 years ago

ahha that was my p.o.v but you know how strict singapore is and all!

[info]inex

September 13 2006, 00:48:37 UTC 5 years ago

why not just ask ROM?

[info]slimjim1309

September 13 2006, 06:42:21 UTC 5 years ago

this is the best comment in the whole lot!

LOL!


ASK R.O.M.!

[info]so_scouse

September 13 2006, 09:31:15 UTC 5 years ago

heh, i just checked the rom website. no email address stated there and i don't think i want to call them up to ask them something like that.

[info]kittykatz

September 13 2006, 12:45:31 UTC 5 years ago

Why wouldn't it be legal since they do not have a 'blood' relationship? Besides the legal aspects of things, marriage between close family members (eg first cousins) are generally unacceptable because of medical reasons, I believe, inbreeding might be the right term?
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