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BASIC INFORMATION. What is the SALN? It is the statement of assets, liabilities and net worth, and the disclosure of financial connections or business interests and identification of relatives within the fourth degree of consanguinity or affinity.
They insist that Section 7 necessarily includes all relatives – whether legitimate or illegitimate – within the fourth degree of consanguinity or affinity; that an illegitimate child is a relative within the first degree of consanguinity of the biological mother or father; that excluding an illegitimate child from the contemplation of ...
Relationships by Marriage (Affinity) relationship by blood is also referred to as being related by consanguinity. A relationship by marriage is sometimes referred to as being related by affinity. husband and wife are related in the first degree by marriage.
Consanguinity (from Latin consanguinitas 'blood relationship') is the characteristic of having a kinship with a relative who is descended from a common ancestor. Many jurisdictions have laws prohibiting people who are related by blood from marrying or having sexual relations with each other.
The Christian emperors modified the rules from time to time and extended the civil law impediment to the first degree of collateral affinity. The church extended the impediment to relationships created by illicit intercourse.
Consanguinity is expressed in terms of “degrees” or how close the relationship is between a person and his or her relatives. The following chart illustrates the degrees of relationship caused by consanguinity (N.B.: affinity is measured in the same way except the relationships come from marriage).
The degree to the wife’s parent or child is one, and to an aunt or niece it is three, and first cousin it is four. Though adoption and step relationships are cases of affinity, they are normally treated as consanguinity.
An Officer or Employee is the starting point from which all degrees of relationship are calculated. Under the Degrees of Consanguinity, where Spouse is indicated, the relationship of the spouse is in the same degree as that of the person related by consanguinity, but the spouse is related only by affinity.
The Christian emperors extended it to the first degree of collateral affinity. The ecclesiastical law extended the juridical effect also to illicit intercourse. In the Council of Elvira (c. 300), the only recognized prohibition is the marriage of a widower with his deceased wife's sister.
