[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 32, Volume 5]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 32CFR716.8]

[Page 190]
 
                       TITLE 32--NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                   CHAPTER VI--DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
 
PART 716_DEATH GRATUITY--Table of Contents
 
    Subpart A_Provisions Applicable to the Navy and the Marine Corps
 
Sec. 716.8  Payments excluded.

    (a) No payment shall be made if the deceased member suffered death 
as a result of lawful punishment for a crime or for a military or naval 
offense, except when death was so inflicted by any hostile force with 
which the Armed Forces of the United States have engaged in armed 
conflict.
    (b) No payment will be made to a survivor implicated in the homicide 
of the deceased in the absence of evidence clearly absolving such 
survivor of any felonious intent.
    (c) Unless the laws of the place where a minor beneficiary resides 
provide that such a payment would grant a valid acquittance of the 
Government's obligation to make a payment of death gratuity to or for a 
minor, a death gratuity of more than $1,000 may not be paid in whole or 
in part to a parent as natural guardian of a minor or to any other 
person who is not a legal guardian appointed by the civil court to 
manage the minor's financial affairs.

[24 FR 7523, Sept. 18, 1959, as amended at 37 FR 6471, Mar. 30, 1972; 44 
FR 25647, May 2, 1979]