20 CFR § 725.224 - Determination of relationship; parent, brother, or sister.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t20/s725.224"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "20 CFR § 725.224 - Determination of relationship; parent, brother, or sister."
title_number: 20
title_name: "Employees' Benefits"
section_number: "725.224"
section_name: "Determination of relationship; parent, brother, or sister."
chapter_name: "OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR"
subchapter_number: "B"
subchapter_name: "FEDERAL COAL MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT OF 1969, AS AMENDED"
part_number: "725"
part_name: "CLAIMS FOR BENEFITS UNDER PART C OF TITLE IV OF THE FEDERAL MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT, AS AMENDED"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "5 U.S.C. 301; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note (Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990); Pub. L. 114-74 at sec. 701; Reorganization Plan No. 6 of 1950, 15 FR 3174; 30 U.S.C. 901 902(f), 921, 932, 936; 33 U.S.C. 901 42 U.S.C. 405; Secretary's Order 10-2009, 74 FR 58834."
regulatory_source: "65 FR 80054, Dec. 20, 2000, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "725"
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# 725.224 Determination of relationship; parent, brother, or sister.
(a) An individual will be considered to be the parent, brother, or sister of a miner if the courts of the State in which the miner was domiciled (see § 225.231) at the time of death would find, under the law they would apply, that the individual is the miner's parent, brother, or sister.
(b) Where, under State law, the individual is not the miner's parent, brother, or sister, but would, under State law, have the same status (*i.e.,* right to share in the miner's intestate personal property) as a parent, brother, or sister, the individual will be considered to be the parent, brother, or sister as appropriate.