The Board has determined that the appellant meets the requirements to be recognized as the Veteran's surviving spouse for purposes of establishing entitlement to Department of Veterans Affairs death benefits.
The deciding factor: The evidence supports a finding that the cohabitation between the appellant and the Veteran was terminated on the basis of mutual convenience, without intent from either party to desert the marriage.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 21, 2010
- Citation
- 1022954
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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