To be eligible for PFL military assist benefits, your foreign-deployed family member must be either your: spouse, registered domestic partner, parent (biological, adopted, foster, stepparent, legal guardian, or person standing in loco parentis of you when you were a child), or child (including biological, adopted, foster, stepchild, your domestic partner's child, legal ward, or child for whom you are standing in loco parentis). Note that deployment comprises: active duty, calls or notices of impending active duty, and/or leave to rest and recuperate following active duty.