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Department
of Human Services Families
First Online Policy Manual Relationship |
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13.3 |
EXCEPTIONS |
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The relationship requirement cannot be
waived. Therefore, even though a
person may have been awarded legal guardianship or custody of a child or
otherwise stands in loco parentis to the child, he/she is not eligible to
receive Families First benefits for the child unless he/she is also a
specified relative. However, when a
child is born during a marriage or within ten months of the termination of
that marriage by death or divorce, the child is presumed to be the child of
the mother’s husband. In this
instance, legal relationship takes precedence over blood relationship. A court order changing the paternity of the
child will be necessary to change the relationship for Families First
purposes. |
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