Legal Opinion
Bobbie R. SCOTT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Otis R. BOWEN, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 29, 1988No. 87-2080PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge.
The Social Security Administration recognizes both legal and “deemed” spouses, widows, and widowers. We have been asked: Does a legal widow’s entitlement to disabled widow’s benefits divest a deemed widow of her prior entitlement to mother’s benefits? We answer: Yes. Affirmed.
BACKGROUND
Appellant Bobbie Scott and Theodore Scott went through a marriage ceremony in March 1963. They had a daughter in February 1977, and lived together until Theodore’s death in March 1981. In April 1981 Bobbie filed an application for Mother’s Insurance Benefits, and for…
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