Familiares de primer grado/segundo grado

[ROBINDESBOIS]

How do you say in English familiares de primer y segundo grado:
1st degree family?

[Perikles]

You just say 'first cousins', 'second cousins' .....

[ROBINDESBOIS]

Ok, though I meant in official documents, when sb dies and you´re given some days off if you are a first degree relative or whatever.

[pjt33]

Immediate family = padres, hijos, hermanos.

[irmamar]

What about kinship?

parentesco de segundo grado: second-degree kinship.

http://dictionary.reverso.net/spanish-english/grado

[hermit]

Would this be referring to in-laws? mother-in-law, brother-in-law,
nieces/nephew by marriage?

[irmamar]

No, we say "grado" to know the kind of proximity of a relative.

My parents and my sons are familiares de primer grado.
My brothers and sisters are familiares de segundo grado.
My uncles and cousins are familiares de tercer grado.

Grado can be for consanguinity or for affinity. My own relatives are for consanguinity. My partner's relatives are for affinity. I mean: my husband's parents are mis familiares de primer grado por afinidad; my own parents are mis familiares de primer grado por consanguinidad.

[Perikles]

Then I misunderstood the OP. This is clearly a Spanish definition, which might be the same in English, but because it has no legal inheritance implications in the UK, I don't know.

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by irmamar

What about kinship?

parentesco de segundo grado: second-degree kinship.

Looks OK to me - sounds like a formal legal expression. I would not be able to define it if asked.

[ROBINDESBOIS]

En google si viene first degree family/relatives and second degree family/relatives too.