WHAT DOES A “DEPENDENT” MEAN?

It means:

  • The wife or wives, or former wife or wives, and the children of the deceased whether or not maintained by the deceased before his death.
  • The deceased’s parent, step parents, grand-parents, grandchildren, step- children, children whom the deceased had taken into his family as his own,
  • Brother and sisters, and half -brothers and half-sisters, who were being maintained by the deceased before his death.
  • Where the deceased is a woman, her husband if he was being maintained by her before her death.