CFR > 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 (parts 718 to 726) > 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 (§725.201 to §725.233) > 725.217—Determination of dependency; surviving divorced spouse.

725.217—Determination of dependency; surviving divorced spouse.

An individual who is the miner's surviving divorced spouse (see § 725.216) shall be determined to have been dependent on the miner if, for the month before the month in which the miner died:
(a) The individual was receiving at least one-half of his or her support from the miner (see § 725.233(g) ); or
(b) The individual was receiving substantial contributions from the miner pursuant to a written agreement (see § 725.233(c) and (f) ); or
(c) A court order required the miner to furnish substantial contributions to the individual's support (see § 725.233(c) and (e) ).