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| Subject: LOL: Supreme Court rules twins conceived posthumously can’t get Social Security benefits Tue May 22, 2012 5:29 am | |
| Twins conceived through in vitro fertilization after their father’s death are not eligible for Social Security survivor benefits, the Supreme Court decided Monday in its first review of “posthumous conception.”
The eligibility decision, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for a unanimous court, depends on whether the offspring are eligible under a state’s inheritance law. And in the case of the twins born to Karen Capato 18 months after the death of her husband, Robert, Florida law does not recognize their eligibility.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/court-twins-conceived-posthumously-cant-receive-benefits/2012/05/21/gIQArQoagU_story.html |
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