[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 38, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 38CFR3.59]

[Page 183]
 
            TITLE 38--PENSIONS, BONUSES, AND VETERANS' RELIEF
 
                CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
 
PART 3_ADJUDICATION--Table of Contents
 
     Subpart A_Pension, Compensation, and Dependency and Indemnity 
                              Compensation
 
Sec.  3.59  Parent.

    (a) The term parent means a natural mother or father (including the 
mother of an illegitimate child or the father of an illegitimate child 
if the usual family relationship existed), mother or father through 
adoption, or a person who for a period of not less than 1 year stood in 
the relationship of a parent to a veteran at any time before his or her 
entry into active service.
    (b) Foster relationship must have begun prior to the veteran's 21st 
birthday. Not more than one father and one mother, as defined, will be 
recognized in any case. If two persons stood in the relationship of 
father or mother for 1 year or more, the person who last stood in such 
relationship before the veteran's last entry into active service will be 
recognized as the parent.

(Authority: 38 U.S.C. 101(5))

[26 FR 1568, Feb. 24, 1961, as amended at 44 FR 45935, Aug. 6, 1979]