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<div class="ocr">Wrens AWA CORNEY CoE NEIR AT,
Ov WEXAS

PRICE DANTE, AvsTin, TEXAS

ATO REY CAN VR AL

Henerable HK. G. Hamrick, Member
Industrial Accident Board

Land Office Building

Austin, Tews

Dear Mr, Hamrick: Opinion No, ©-6263

Ke: Construction of Article 83046
Section Ga, Revised Civil Statutes,
as the same is affected by the mari-
tal status of « minor daughter.

Your request for an opinion from this department is as
faliews: “

secs nabion ates oo WS, fuxnigh xe with
Bee pattie yan hotly your opinion regarding —

*{1) ta a married women under the age of 21 years
whe ts dependant upon her father entitled te workcnen's
compensation upon the Genth of her father ?

*(z) ls a married woman under the age of 21 years
of age whe is not dependent upon her father entitied
te workmen's compensation upon the death of her father ?*

Article 6366, Sec. Sa, af the Revised Civil Stetutes, prevides:

“The compensation provided for tnt he foregoing
section of this law shall be for the sole and exclusive
benefit of the surviving husband whe has net for good
cense and fer a period of three years prior thereto, a~
bendened his wife at the time of the injury, and of the
wife who has not et the time ef the injury witheut good
cpuse end for s period of three years prior thereto,
abandoned her husband, and of the miner children,
parents ond eteprnether, without regard te the question
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ES RE he

Honovable H. G. Hamrick ~ page 2.

of dependency, dependent grandparents, dependent
children and dependent brothers end sisters of the
deceased employe; * * *".

Article 4625 of the Statutes reeds as follows:
“Every female under the age of twenty-one years

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State, shell, from ani after the time of such marriage,
be deemed to be of full age and shali heve all the rights
and privileges to which she would have been entitled
had she been at the time of her marrisge of full age."

The Article last quoted precludes a holding that a married

woman under the age of twenty-one years is a minor, By, this emphatic
stetate such mere “deemed to be of fall age” . (See, Dumke

ve Barkley, 87 5.W. 1147),
Fo Section $a of Article 6306, however, regardless of age what-

seevér, names “dapendent children” as beneficiaries of the Compen-
sation Act.

= a lear hare schist -onbe elegy Weve arp Suk

doen dependent childven regardless ef age, tt follows that 3 ee

ting should be answered as fellowes

male qi) A warried woman under the age of twenty-one years,

dependent upon her father, ts entitied te the compensatica,
(2) A marcied women under the age of twenty-one yeara, who is

not dependent upon her father, is not entitled tharete,

: in other words, to be such beneficiary, a daughter roust be

either # minor or 2 dependent,
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Very truly yours
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
APPROVED NOV, 17,1944 - By ! :
Grover ‘ellers Ocle Speer
Attorney Geanrel af Sones Asstatent
OS-MR

APPROVED OPINION COMMITTEE
By BWR, Chairman
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