Can an Adopted Child Marry a Biological Child?

Point d Clause 2 Article 5 of the 2014 Law on Marriage and Family prohibits the following acts:

Marrying or cohabiting as husband and wife between persons in the direct bloodline; between persons with kinship within three generations; between adoptive parents and adopted children; between persons who were formerly adoptive parents and adopted children, father-in-law and daughter-in-law, mother-in-law and son-in-law, stepfather and stepdaughter, stepmother and stepson.

And Clauses 17, 18 of Article 3 of this Law explain:

- Persons in the direct bloodline are those with a consanguineous relationship, in which one person is born directly by the other.

- Persons with kinship within three generations are those born from a common ancestor, including parents as the first generation; siblings sharing the same parents, same father but different mother, or same mother but different father as the second generation; first cousins as the third generation.

Based on the above regulations, the law does not prohibit an adopted child from marrying a biological child. Therefore, you may marry your girlfriend (who is the adopted child of your parents) if both of you meet the marriage conditions stipulated in Article 8 of the 2014 Law on Marriage and Family.

Respectfully!