The Board denied the claim for DIC benefits as the appellant does not meet the basic eligibility requirements due to her disqualifying marriages, and thus precluded from being recognized as a helpless child of the Veteran.
The deciding factor: The appellant's marriages were found to be void or annulled by an appropriate judicial court, which disqualified her from entitlement to VA benefits deriving from her father’s death.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 6, 2019
- Citation
- 19116504
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What this means for you
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