WOMAN MARRIED TO STEPFATHER
CEREMONY NOT LEGAL A woman who went through a marriage ceremony with her stepfather was granted a nullity decree nisi by Mr Justice Hodson, in the Divorce Court, London, on the ground that the marriage was within the prohibited degrees. She is Mrs Sylvia Hannah Scott (otherwise Hunt), of Tolworth, and she married Mr Edgar William Scott, on October 7, 1939. In April, 1919, Mr Scott married the petitioner’s mother, who died in August, 1939. The case for Mrs Scott, whose husband did not defend the suit was that after her husband’s death Scott asked her to marry him, and said he had been informed by a solicitor that it was legal to do so. She left Scott when she learned that the marriage was not legal.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21971, 24 May 1941, Page 4
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131WOMAN MARRIED TO STEPFATHER Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21971, 24 May 1941, Page 4
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