Adams v. Texfi Industries

GOOLSBY, Judge:

In this workers’ compensation case, we are asked to decide whether the deceased employee provided sufficient support to his stepdaughter to entitle her to the presumption of being wholly dependent for the purpose of receiving death benefits.

Pilot William Jackson Adams (Stepfather) died in a plane crash in 1990 while working within the scope and course of his duties for Texfi Industries. His survivors included his second wife of eight months, Rosita L. Adams (Wife), his adopted daughter, Ji Hae Kim Adams (Adopted Child), and his step*308daughter Martina McKeown (Stepchild). The two…