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From: "svanwyk" <>
Subject: Re: [TXCem] CHAPTER 573. DEGREES OF RELATIONSHIP
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:11:10 -0600
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Yes I agree. How about giving a specific link in answering a specific
question, instead of the copy/paste. Possibly a lot of us already work with
cemetery associations and have this information.


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Subject: [TXCem] CHAPTER 573. DEGREES OF RELATIONSHIP


> CHAPTER 573. DEGREES OF RELATIONSHIP; NEPOTISM PROHIBITIONS
> SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
>
> § 573.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
> (1) "Candidate" has the meaning assigned by Section 251.001, Election
> Code.
> (2) "Position" includes an office, clerkship, employment, or duty.
> (3) "Public official" means:
> ...(A) an officer of this state or of a district, county, municipality,
> precinct, school district, or other political subdivision of this state;
> ...(B) an officer or member of a board of this state or of a district,
> county, municipality, school district, or other political subdivision of
> this state; or
> ...(C) a judge of a court created by or under a statute of this state.
> Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
>
> § 573.002. DEGREES OF RELATIONSHIP.
> Except as provided by Section 573.043, this chapter applies to
> relationships within the third degree by consanguinity or within the
> second degree by affinity.
> Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
>
> SUBCHAPTER B. RELATIONSHIPS BY CONSANGUINITY OR BY AFFINITY
> § 573.021. METHOD OF COMPUTING DEGREE OF RELATIONSHIP.
> The degree of a relationship is computed by the civil law method.
> Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
>
> § 573.022. DETERMINATION OF CONSANGUINITY.
> (a) Two individuals are related to each other by consanguinity if:
> ...(1) one is a descendant of the other; or
> ...(2) they share a common ancestor.
> ...(b) An adopted child is considered to be a child of the adoptive
> parent for this purpose.
> Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
>
> § 573.023. COMPUTATION OF DEGREE OF CONSANGUINITY.
> (a) The degree of relationship by consanguinity
> between an individual and the individual's descendant is determined by the
> number of generations that separate them. A parent and child are related
> in the first degree, a grandparent and grandchild in the second degree, a
> great-grandparent and great-grandchild in the third degree and so on.
> (b) If an individual and the individual's relative are related by
> consanguinity, but neither is descended from the other, the degree of
> relationship is determined by adding:
> ...(1) the number of generations between the individual and the nearest
> common ancestor of the individual and the individual's relative; and
> ...(2) the number of generations between the relative and the nearest
> common ancestor.
> (c) An individual's relatives within the third degree by consanguinity
> are the individual's:
> ...(1) parent or child (relatives in the first degree);
> ...(2) brother, sister, grandparent, or grandchild (relatives in the
> second degree); and
> ...(3) great-grandparent, great-grandchild, aunt who is a sister of a
> parent of the individual, uncle who is a brother of a parent of the
> individual, nephew who is a child of a brother or sister of the
> individual, or niece who is a child of a brother or sister of the
> individual (relatives in the third degree).
> Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
>
>
> § 573.024. DETERMINATION OF AFFINITY.
> (a) Two individuals are related to each other by affinity if:
> ...(1) they are married to each other; or
> ...(2) the spouse of one of the individuals is related by consanguinity
> to the other individual.
> (b) The ending of a marriage by divorce or the death of a spouse ends
> relationships by affinity created by that marriage unless a child of that
> marriage is living, in which case the marriage is considered to continue
> as long as a child of that marriage lives.
> (c) Subsection (b) applies to a member of the board of trustees of or an
> officer of a school district only until the youngest child of the marriage
> reaches the age of 21 years.
> Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993. Amended
> by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, § 32, eff. May 30, 1995.
>
> § 573.025. COMPUTATION OF DEGREE OF AFFINITY.
> (a) A husband and wife are related to each other in the first degree by
> affinity. For other relationships by affinity, the degree of relationship
> is the same as the degree of the underlying relationship by consanguinity.
> For example: if two individuals are related to each other in the second
> degree by consanguinity, the
> spouse of one of the individuals is related to the other individual in the
> second degree by affinity.
> (b) An individual's relatives within the third degree by
> affinity are:
> ...(1) anyone related by consanguinity to the individual's spouse in one
> of the ways named in Section 573.023(c); and
> ...(2) the spouse of anyone related to the individual by consanguinity in
> one of the ways named in Section 573.023(c).
> Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
>
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