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särkullbarn

English translation: children from a previous marriage or relationship

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Swedish term or phrase:särkullbarn
English translation:children from a previous marriage or relationship
Entered by: ExEssex

05:20 Jun 13, 2007
Swedish to English translations [PRO]
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Swedish term or phrase: särkullbarn
Among the beneficiaries of a death estate are two 'särkullbarn'.
A good English term for this is?
ExEssex
Local time: 11:39
children from a previous marriage or relationship
Explanation:
cf:
Om det finns barn från före äktenskapet (särkull-. barn) ärver dessa barn före den efterlevande maken.
www.forenadeliv.se/.../upload/Dokument/Vara_forsakringar/Fa...

Min man har ett särkull barn och vi har ett gemensamt barn. Enl min uppfattning så ärver jag min man till 50% och barnen 25% var
www.lawline.se/besvaradfraga.php?id=2618

The blending of two families, often involving unrelated sets of children from previous marriages, can create complex challenges in estate planning.
http://www.agoltd.com/article-blended.htm
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heikeb
Ireland
Local time: 10:39
Grading comment
Great minds think alike - almost. I used 'relationship' and then changed 'previous' to 'another' (one never knows!). I just wondered if there was an English expression as short and pithy as the Swedish one. There often isn't. Great language Swedish for expressing concepts with one word.
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4 +1children from a previous marriage or relationship
heikeb
5stepchildren
Hugh Curtis


  

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children from a previous marriage or relationship


Explanation:
cf:
Om det finns barn från före äktenskapet (särkull-. barn) ärver dessa barn före den efterlevande maken.
www.forenadeliv.se/.../upload/Dokument/Vara_forsakringar/Fa...

Min man har ett särkull barn och vi har ett gemensamt barn. Enl min uppfattning så ärver jag min man till 50% och barnen 25% var
www.lawline.se/besvaradfraga.php?id=2618

The blending of two families, often involving unrelated sets of children from previous marriages, can create complex challenges in estate planning.
http://www.agoltd.com/article-blended.htm

heikeb
Ireland
Local time: 10:39
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Great minds think alike - almost. I used 'relationship' and then changed 'previous' to 'another' (one never knows!). I just wondered if there was an English expression as short and pithy as the Swedish one. There often isn't. Great language Swedish for expressing concepts with one word.

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stepchildren


Explanation:
The relationship to the remaining spouse is "stepchildren". The term is stepchild. Norstedts dich.

Hugh Curtis
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