"HEIRS" AND "BLOOD RELATIONS"—WHO ARE INCLUDED IN THESE TERMS, AS BENEFICIARIES. By William B. Risse, General Attorney, Court of Honor. THE STATUTES EXAMINED: ARIZONA. 66 Revised Statutes 1901, Sec. 898. 'Associations may be formed for the purpose of paying to the nominee of any member a sum upon the death of said member not exceeding three dollars for each member of such association." CALIFORNIA. Kerrs Cyc. Codes Vol. 11, Sec. 453. "Each association provided for in this chapter may on the death of a member levy an assessment on the surviving members of not exceeding three dollars for each member and collect and pay the same to the nominee of such decedent, IDAHO. Revised Codes 1908, Sec. 2889. "Payment of death benefits shall be to the families, heirs, blood relatives, affianced husband, or affianced wife of, or persons dependent upon the member." ILLINOIS. Hurd's Revised Statutes, 1908, page 1263, Sec. 258. "Payment of death benefits shall only be paid to the families, heirs, blood relations, affianced husband or affianced wife of, or to persons dependent upon the member," etc. INDIANA. Burns Annotated Indiana Statutes, 1908, Sec. 5043. "Payment of death benefits shall be to the families, heirs, blood relatives, affianced husband or affianced wife of, or to persons dependent upon the member." IOWA. Iowa Code 1897, Sec. 1824. * "No fraternal association created or organized under the provisions of this chapter shall issue any certificate unless the beneficiary under said certificate shall be the husband, wife, relative, legal representative, heir or legatee of such member." KANSAS. General Statutes 1905, Sec. 3692. "The payment of death benefits of such an association shall be to the families, heirs, blood relatives, affianced husband or affianced wife of, or to persons dependent upon the member thereof." MAINE. Revised Statutes 1903, page 501. "Payments of death benefits shall be to the families, heirs, blood relatives, adopted children, adopted parents, affianced husband or affianced wife of, or to persons dependent upon the member.” MINNESOTA. Supplement of 1909 to the Revised Laws of 1905, Sec. 1704-16. "The payment of death benefits shall be confined to the wife, husband, family, relatives by blood, marriage or legal adoption, affianced husband or affianced wife, or to a person or persons dependent on the member, subject to the limitations and control of the association as to the designation of beneficiaries within said classes." MARYLAND. Public General Laws 1904, page 627. 'Payments of death benefits may be made only to the widow, children, grandchildren, mother, father, brother, sister, grandparent, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, first cousin, next of kin who would be dis tributees of the member's personal estate if he died intestate, to an affianced husband or affianced wife of the member, or to persons dependent upon the member for food, lodging, clothing or education and to none other," etc. MASSACHUSETTS. Revised Laws 1902, page 1170. "Such death benefit shall be payable only to the husband, wife, betrothed, child by legal adoption, parent by legal adoption or relatives of or persons dependent upon the member named in the benefit certificate," etc. MICHIGAN. Compiled Laws 1897, page 2428. "Payment of death benefits shall be made only to the wife, husband, children and dependent children, mother, father, sister, brother or blood relatives to the fourth degree of the member. Provided where an applicant or member has no relatives as above provided to whom he may make his certificate payable; in such case he may designate any other person or make his estate his beneficiary," MISSOURI. Annotated Statutes 1906, Sec. 1408. "Payment of death benefits shall be to the families, heirs, blood relatives, affianced husband or affianced wife of, or to persons dependent upon the member." NEBRASKA. Cobbey's Annotated Statutes 1909, Sec. 6638. "Payment of death benefits shall only be made to the families, heirs, blood relations, affianced husband or affianced wife of, or to persons dependent upon the member." NEW HAMPSHIRE. Laws 1901, Chapter 86. "Payment of death benefits shall be to the families, heirs, blood relatives, affianced husband or affianced wife of, or to persons dependent upon the member." NEW JERSEY. Laws 1907, Chapter 188. "And the payment of death benefits being made to the families, heirs, blood relatives, affianced husband or affianced wife of, or to persons dependent upon the member." NEW YORK. Birdseye's, Cummings' & Gilbert's Consolidated Laws of New Any such fraternal beneficiary society, order or association may make such promise or agreement with its members for the payment of benefits to a member or others dependent upon him or a beneficiary designated by him in case of sickness, disability or death." PENNSYLVANIA. Pepper & Lewis Digest, Vol. 1, Column 2185. "Payment of death benefits shall be to families, blood relatives, affianced husband or affianced wife of, or to persons dependent upon such member." NORTH DAKOTA. Revised Codes 1905, Sec. 4570. "Payment of death benefits shall be to the families, heirs, blood relatives, affianced husband or affianced wife of, or to persons dependent upon the member." OHIO. Laws 1897, page 422, Sec. 6. "The payment of death benefits shall be confined to the family, heirs, relatives by blood, marriage or legal adoption, affianced husband or affianced wife, or to a person or persons dependent on the member." OKLAHOМА. General Statutes 1908, Sec. 3361. "Payment of death benefits shall be to the families, heirs, blood relatives, affianced husband or affianced wife of, or to persons dependent upon the member." SOUTH CAROLINA. Acts 1910, No. 285, Sec. 4. "The payment of death benefits shall be confined to wife, husband, relatives by blood to the fourth degree ascending or descending, stepfather, stepmother, stepchildren, children by legal adoption, or to a person or persons dependent upon the member," etc. TENNESSEE. Acts 1905, Chapter 480, Sec. 6. "The payment of death benefits shall be confined to the wife, husband, family, relatives by blood, marriage or legal adoption, affianced husband or affianced wife, or to a person or persons dependent on the member, subject to the limitation and control of the association as to the designation of beneficiaries within said classes." TEXAS. Supplement to Sayles, Texas Civil Statutes 1910, page 181. "The payment of death benefits shall be confined to wife, husband, relatives by blood to the fourth degree ascending or descending, stepfather, stepmother, stepchildren, children by legal adoption, or to a person or persons dependent upon the member," etc. VERMONT. Public Statutes 1906, Sec. 4825. "Payment of death benefits shall be to the families, heirs, blood relatives, affianced husband or affianced wife of, or to persons dependent upon the member." Acts 1906, Chapter 320. VIRGINIA. "Payment of death benefits shall be to the families, heirs, blood relatives, affianced husband or affianced wife of, or to persons dependent upon the member, or to such other beneficiary as may be permitted by the laws of the state or province in which such order is chartered." |