---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 725.206"
title: "20"
number: "725.206"
heading: "Determination of relationship; divorced spouse."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/725.206"
---

# §725.206. Determination of relationship; divorced spouse.


For the purposes of augmenting benefits with respect to any claim considered or reviewed under this part or [part 727](/cfr/20/part727.md) of this subchapter (see [§ 725.4(d)](/cfr/20/725.4.md?p=d)), an individual will be considered to be the divorced spouse of a miner if the individual's marriage to the miner has been terminated by a final divorce on or after the 10th anniversary of the marriage unless, if such individual was married to and divorced from the miner more than once, such individual was married to the miner in each calendar year of the period beginning 10 years immediately before the date on which any divorce became final.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note (Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990); Pub. L. 114-74 at sec. 701; Reorganization Plan No. 6 of 1950, 15 FR 3174; 30 U.S.C. 901 et seq., 902(f), 921, 932, 936; 33 U.S.C. 901 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 405; Secretary's Order 10-2009, 74 FR 58834.

### Source

Source: 65 FR 80054, Dec. 20, 2000, unless otherwise noted.