[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 434]

 

                      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.