(1) The following persons shall be presumed to be wholly dependent upon a deceased employee:
(a) A surviving spouse upon a decedent whom the surviving spouse had not voluntarily abandoned at the time of the accident, or who having been abandoned by the decedent has not engaged in such conduct since his abandonment as would at common law constitute grounds justifying the abandonment of such wife by her husband or such husband by his wife;
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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 342.075

  • Child: includes stepchildren, legally adopted children, posthumous children and recognized children born out of wedlock, but does not include married children unless actually dependent. See Kentucky Statutes 342.085
  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Grandchild: includes children of adopted children or stepchildren, but excludes stepchildren of children or of adopted children and married children. See Kentucky Statutes 342.085
  • Parent: includes stepparents and parents by adoption. See Kentucky Statutes 342.085
  • Person: means any individual, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, firm, association, trust, joint venture, corporation, or legal representative thereof. See Kentucky Statutes 342.0011
  • sister: includes stepbrothers, stepsisters and brothers and sisters of the half blood or by adoption, but excludes married brothers or sisters unless actually dependent. See Kentucky Statutes 342.085

(b) A child or children under the age of sixteen (16) years, or over sixteen (16) years if incapacitated from wage earning, upon the parent with whom such child or children are living, or by whom actually supported, or from whom support is legally required by judgment of a court, at the time of the accident.
(2) In all other cases the relation of dependency in whole or in part shall be determined in accordance with the facts of each case existing at the time of the accident.
(3) No person shall be considered a dependent in any degree unless he is living in the household of the employee at the time of the accident, or unless such person bears to the employee the relation of father, mother, husband, or wife, father-in-law or mother-in-law, grandfather or grandmother, child or grandchild, or brother or sister of the whole or half blood and is actually dependent.
Effective: July 15, 1980
History: Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 104, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1980. — Amended
1974 Ky. Acts ch. 386, sec. 60. — Amended 1952 Ky. Acts ch. 55, sec. 1, effective June 19, 1952; and ch. 182, sec. 3, effective June 30, 1952. — Amended 1950 Ky. Acts ch. 187, sec. 2. — Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1,
1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 4894.