[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: 20CFR222.2]

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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
 
PART 222_FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS--Table of Contents
 
                            Subpart A_General
 
Sec. 222.2  Definitions.

    As used in this part--
    Annuity means a payment under the Railroad Retirement Act due to an 
entitlement claimant for a calendar month and made to him or her on the 
first day of the following month.
    Apply means to sign a form or statement that the Railroad Retirement 
Board accepts as an application for an annuity or lump-sum payment under 
the rules set out in part 217 of this chapter.
    Child has differing definitions for annuity and lump-sum payment 
purposes. See Sec. 222.31.
    Claimant means a person who files an application for an annuity or 
lump-sum payment or for whom an application is filed.
    Eligible means that a person would meet all the requirements for 
payment of an annuity or lump-sum payment as of a given date but has not 
yet applied therefor.
    Employee means an employee as defined in part 203 of this chapter.
    Final divorce means a divorce that completely dissolves a marriage 
and restores the parties to the status of single persons; it is also 
referred to as an absolute divorce.
    Finally divorced person means a person whose marriage has been 
terminated or dissolved by a final divorce.
    Legal impediment means that there was a defect in the procedures 
followed in a marriage ceremony or that a previous marriage of the 
employee or spouse had not ended at the time of the ceremony.
    Lump-sum payment means any of the following payments under the 
Railroad Retirement Act: lump-sum death payment, residual lump-sum, 
annuities due but unpaid at death, or lump-sum refund payment (see part 
234 of this chapter).
    Marriage means the social and legal relationship of husband and wife 
for family relationship purposes, as well as the act by which the 
married state is effected.

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    Permanent home means the employee's true and fixed home (legal 
domicile); it is the place to which the employee intends to return 
whenever he or she is absent therefrom.
    Relationship means a family connection by blood, marriage, or 
adoption between the employee and another person who is a claimant.
    Spouse means the husband or wife of the employee.
    State law means the law of the State in which the employee has his 
or her permanent home or, in the case of a deceased employee, the law of 
the State in which the employee had his or her permanent home at the 
time of his or her death. If the employee's permanent home is not in one 
of the 50 States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, 
Guam, or American Samoa, the laws of the District of Columbia are 
applied.