ADOPTIVE SIBLINGS IN AUSTRALIAN COURT BATTLE TO MARRY: From Yahoo! News

A West Australian couple who are brother and sister by adoption but unrelated by blood are battling a federal law preventing them from marrying.

Kevin and Deborah Jefferies have been in love for at least 10 years and wish to get married, but under the Federal Marriage Act 1961--which prevents brothers and sisters from marrying--their relationship is taboo.

The couple became siblings on paper when their parents married and Kevin's father adopted Deborah and her sisters.

"There's so many people who can get divorced so easily--we can't even get married to start with," Kevin told Channel Seven.

"If you love somebody you marry them ... it's more than just a piece of paper." ...

Although Deborah, at 17, refused Kevin's first proposal fearing it would upset their parents, the couple only formally discovered they were forbidden from marrying one another after Deborah fell pregnant with their first child.

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