[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: 20CFR222.22]

[Page 415]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
 
PART 222_FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS--Table of Contents
 
Subpart C_Relationship as Divorced Spouse, Surviving Divorced Spouse, or 
                           Remarried Widow(er)
 
Sec. 222.22  Relationship as divorced spouse.

    A claimant will be considered to be the divorced spouse of an 
employee if--
    (a) His or her marriage to the employee has been terminated by a 
final divorce; and
    (b) He or she is not married (if the claimant remarried after the 
divorce from the employee, the later marriage has been terminated by 
death, final divorce, or annulment); and
    (c) He or she had been validly married to the employee, as set forth 
in Sec. 222.11, for a period of 10 years immediately before the date 
the divorce became final. The claimant meets this requirement even if 
the claimant and employee were divorced within the ten-year period, 
provided that the claimant and employee were remarried no later than the 
calendar year immediately following the year in which the divorce took 
place.