{"data":{"id":"us/20-cfr-725.214","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"20 CFR 725.214","heading":"Determination of relationship; surviving spouse.","body":"An individual shall be considered to be the surviving spouse of a miner if:\n(a) The courts of the State in which the miner was domiciled (see § 725.231) at the time of his or her death would find that the individual and the miner were validly married; or\n(b) The courts of the State in which the miner was domiciled (see § 725.231) at the time of the miner's death would find that the individual was the miner's surviving spouse; or\n(c) Under State law, such individual would have the right of the spouse to share in the miner's intestate personal property; or\n(d) Such individual went through a marriage ceremony with the miner, resulting in a purported marriage between them which, but for a legal impediment (see § 725.230), would have been a valid marriage, unless such individual entered into the purported marriage with knowledge that it was not a valid marriage, or if such individual and the miner were not living in the same household at the time of the miner's death.","path":["Title 20—Employees' Benefits","CHAPTER VI—OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR","SUBCHAPTER B—FEDERAL COAL MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT OF 1969, AS AMENDED","PART 725—CLAIMS FOR BENEFITS UNDER PART C OF TITLE IV OF THE FEDERAL MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT, AS AMENDED","Subpart B—Persons Entitled to Benefits, Conditions, and Duration of Entitlement"],"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":"86d7f9b0237b4b83874dd0817d2a7d70d71868bee26bc639e29c6ee30ba8763a","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/20-cfr-725.213","next":"us/20-cfr-725.215"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}