"Do you think the mother might have been some poor relation?"

The only real problems, it seems, result from poor interpersonal relations.

You have no interest in that poor relation of same, legal procedure.

My parents did all they could to make him feel like a poor relation.

In the fall and winter, they make their house available to poor artistic relations like me.

Due to these poor relations the area was not settled.

He further improved the previously poor relations between the department and the local media.

"Nothing for us to worry about - only one of your poor relations."

But poor relations don't do anything to keep you in mind of them.

The later was done despite poor relations between the governments of the two countries.