[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR410.340]

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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
               CHAPTER III--SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 410_FEDERAL COAL MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT OF 1969, TITLE IV_BLACK 
LUNG BENEFITS (1969	 )--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart C_Relationship and Dependency
 
Sec. 410.340  Determination of relationship; parent, brother, or sister.

    An individual will be considered to be the parent, brother, or 
sister of a miner if the courts of the State in which such miner was 
domiciled (see Sec. 410.392) at the time of his death would find, under 
the law they would apply in determining the devolution of the miner's 
intestate personal property, that the individual is the miner's parent, 
brother, or sister. Where, under such law, the individual does not bear 
the relationship to the miner of parent, brother, or sister, but would, 
under State law, have the same status (i.e., right to share in the 
miner's intestate personal property) as a parent, brother, or sister, 
the individual will be deemed to be such. An individual will be 
considered to be the parent, brother, or sister of a miner if the 
individual is the stepparent, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, or 
half sister of the miner, or is the parent, brother, or sister of the 
miner by adoption.

[37 FR 20639, Sept. 30, 1972]