An in-law is someone who is a relative because of marriage, like your husband’s sister or your wife’s father. You can refer to your spouse’s entire family as your in-laws. In some countries, a married woman moves in with her in-laws, symbolically becoming part of their family.
Q. What is the difference between immediate family and extended family?
Generally, your parents, siblings, spouses, and children are considered immediate family. Any grandparents/children, cousins, uncles, aunts, or otherwise would be your extended family. You living with your husband is living with immediate family.
Table of Contents
Q. Are parents considered immediate family?
In California, for purposes of subdivision of Labor Code Section 2066, “immediate family member” means spouse, domestic partner, cohabitant, child, stepchild, grandchild, parent, stepparent, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandparent, great grandparent, brother, sister, half-brother, half- …
Q. Is a brother-in-law extended family?
Extended family means parents in law and grandparents, grandparents in law, brothers and sisters in law, and nieces and nephews, of the employee or their spouse.
Q. Is Grandma an immediate family?
Related Definitions Immediate Family Member means a child, stepchild, grandchild, parent, stepparent, grandparent, spouse, sibling, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law, including adoptive relationships, of a natural person referred to herein.
Q. Is an uncle an extended family member?
An extended family is a family that extends beyond the nuclear family, consisting of parents like father, mother, and their children, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins, all living in the same household.
Q. What do you call an extended family member?
Members of the extended family may include aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, nieces, and siblings-in-law….
- Husband: a male spouse.
- Wife: a female spouse.
- Son: a male child of the parent(s). Grandson: a child’s son.
- Daughter: a female child of the parent(s). Granddaughter: a child’s daughter.