{"data":{"id":"us/20-cfr-222.22","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"20 CFR 222.22","heading":"Relationship as divorced spouse.","body":"A claimant will be considered to be the divorced spouse of an employee if—\n(a) His or her marriage to the employee has been terminated by a final divorce; and\n(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\n(c) He or she had been validly married to the employee, as set forth in § 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.","path":["Title 20—Employees' Benefits","CHAPTER II—RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD","SUBCHAPTER B—REGULATIONS UNDER THE RAILROAD RETIREMENT ACT","PART 222—FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS","Subpart C—Relationship as Divorced Spouse, Surviving Divorced Spouse, or Remarried Widow(er)"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-20.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:24:45Z","sha256":"f002e0a0b52938befda73e75180acc4af6499df2a670b9bcd6f5de466d6447f1","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/20-cfr-222.21","next":"us/20-cfr-222.23"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}