[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR219.37]

[Page 234]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
 
PART 219_EVIDENCE REQUIRED FOR PAYMENT--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart C_Evidence of Relationship
 
Sec. 219.37  Evidence of natural parent or child relationship.

    (a) Preferred evidence. If the claimant is the natural parent of the 
employee, preferred evidence of the ralationship is a copy of the 
employee's public or religious birth record. If the claimant is the 
natural child of the employee, preferred evidence of the relationship is 
a copy of the child's public or religious birth record.
    (b) Other evidence of parent or child relationship. (1) When 
preferred evidence of a parent or child relationship cannot be obtained, 
the Board may ask the applicant for evidence of the employee's marriage 
or of the marriage of the employee's parents if that is needed to remove 
any reasonable doubt of the relationship.
    (2) To show that a person is the child of the employee, the person 
may be asked for evidence that he or she would be able to inherit the 
employee's personal property under the law of the state where the 
employee died or had a permanent home.
    (3) In some instances the Board may ask for a signed statement from 
the employee that a person is his or her natural child, or for a copy of 
a court order showing that the person has been declared to be the child 
of the employee, or for a copy of a court order requiring the employee 
to contribute to the person's support because the person is his or her 
child, or for any other supporting evidence which may be required in 
order to establish that the person is the child of the employee.