[Jo Nuvark]

Can you name it ping?

[Keith in Iowa]

Keep that going and you’ll turn out to be your own grandparent... :)

[MediaMole]

Just say they’re your Arkans-laws.

[SENTINEL]

Good grief....this is a question for Jerry Springer, not FreeRepublic.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

It’s times like this when I find myself hoping to marry an orphan.

Seriously though, sounds like you’re over complicating the situation.

“Brother-in-law’s cousin” sounds right.

[Tuba Guy]

I see a whole new opportunity here for Hallmark cards ....

[Politicalmom]

I say just call yourself FLDS members and call it a day.

(JUST kidding, people.....)

[jazusamo]

Shirt tail relative? :-)

[Dr.Zoidberg]

To clarify, B-i-L’s cousin if your son is needing to explain the situation.

Otherwise, you can’t go wrong by calling her first cousin once removed. /shrug

[John Valentine]

Keep it simple.

Try Mom and Dad. As for the other parents, they’re Mom and Dad, too.

You can leave the “cousin of my sister’s husband” part right the heck out of it, unless you’re looking for unnecessary conversation.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Many, many years ago when I was twenty-three
I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red.
My father fell in love with her and soon they, too, were wed.

This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life
For my daughter was my mother, ‘cause she was my father’s wife.
To complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.

My little baby then became a brother-in-law to dad
And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad
For if he was my uncle, then that also made him brother
To the widow’s grown-up daughter, who, of course, was my step-mother.

My father’s wife then had a son who kept them on the run
And he became my grand-child, ‘cause he was my daughter’s son.
My wife is now my mother’s mother, and it makes me blue
Because, although she is my wife, she’s my grandmother too.

If my wife is my grandmother, then I am her grandchild
And every time I think of it, it nearly drives me wild
For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw
(This has got to be the strangest thing I ever saw)
As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpaw.

Chorus
I’m my own grandpaw
I’m my own grandpaw
It sounds funny I know
but it really is so
Oh, I’m my own grandpaw.

[JRios1968]

Does your computer desktop look anything like this?

[Octar]

If their kids have webbed feet, encourage them to become frogmen.

[EDINVA]

These kinds of relationships were very common in my parents’ generation. Generally, the people would refer to each other by their primary relationship. My husband’s family just calls everyone ‘cousin’ regardless of how distant removed or how close. Keeps things simple.

[dr_lew]

Is there a name for the relationship the parents have to each other?

As I understand it, the answer is no. My sister-in-law's husband is just my sister-in-law's husband. Your son's sister's husband is his brother-in-law, but his brother-in-law's cousin is just his brother-in-law's cousin.

Obligatory song.

[Drango]

Is there a name for the relationship

Southerners call it typical.

[IYellAtMyTV]

[org.whodat]

West Virginia

[Caramelgal]

My son is about to marry the cousin of his sister's husband.

First of all your son is not a blood relative of his sister’s husband’s cousin.

So what is the objection? Do you have some other underlying objection to this marriage? Or do you feel the need to explain to anyone and everyone you meet, the distant marital, non-blood, in-law relationship?

Living on the East Coast, I have cousins who live and grew up in California who I haven’t seen or had any contact with since 1976.

Suppose I meet a really great guy who I will choose to call “Fred” and I find out that “Fred” is the cousin of one of my cousin’s in-laws?

I and my family would just introduce him as my fiancé “Fred” and I wouldn’t feel any need to explain the distant non-blood “in-law” relationship to anyone but my closest friends and then only as a “isn’t a small world” sort of strange coincidence sort of thing.

[sionnsar]

Diagrams are a big help in cases such as this. Just an engineer speaking...