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PUBLIC LAW 88-644-OCT. 13, 1964
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annuity of such child or children shall be recomputed and paid as provided in subparagraph (C) of this paragraph. In any case in which the annuity of a dependent child, under this subsection, is terminated, the annuities of any remaining dependent child or children, based upon the service of the same judge, shall be recomputed and paid as though the child whose annuity was so terminated had not survived such judge. "(6) As used in this subsection— Definitions. " (A) The term 'widow' means a surviving wife of an individual who either (i) shall have been married to such individual for at least two years immediately preceding his death or (ii) is the mother of issue by such marriage, and who has not remarried. " (B) The term 'dependent child' means an unmarried child, including a dependent stepchild or an adopted child, who is under the age of eighteen years or who because of physical or mental disability is incapable of self-support. Questions of dependency and disability arising under this subsection Determination of shall be determined by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, dfrabuit"!^ ^"'^ The Commissioners may order or direct at any time such medical or other examinations as they shall deem necessary to determine the facts relative to the nature and degree of disability of any dependent child who is an annuitant or applicant for annuity under this subsection, and may suspend or deny any such annuity for failure to submit to any examination. "(7) I n any case in which (A) a judge who has elected to bring himself within the purview of this subsection shall die ^i) while in regular active service after having rendered five years of civilian service computed as prescribed in paragraph (13) of this subsection, or while receiving retirement salary under this section, but without a survivor or survivors entitled or who, upon attaining the age of fifty, will become entitled, to annuity benefits provided by paragraph (5) of this subsection, or (ii) while in regular active service but before having rendered five years of such civilian service or (B) the right of all persons entitled to an annuity under paragraph (5) of this subsection based on the service of such judge shall terminate before a valid claim therefor shall have been established, the total amount credited to an individual account of such judge under this section, with interest at 4 per centum per annum to December 31, 1947, and 3 per centum per annum, thereafter, compounded on December 31 of each year, to the date of the death of such judge, shall be paid, upon the establishment of a valid claim therefor, to the person or persons surviving at the date title to the payment arises, in the following order of precedence, and such payment shall be a bar to recovery by any other person: "First, to the beneficiary or beneficiaries whom the judge may have designated by a writing received by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia prior to his death; "Second, if there be no such beneficiary, to the widow of such judge; "Third, if none of the above, to the child or children of such judge and the descendants of any deceased children by representation; "Fourth, if none of the above, to the parents of such judge or the survivor of them; "Fifth, if none of the above, to the duly appointed executor or administrator of the estate of such judge; "Sixth, if none of the above, to such other next of kin of such judge as may be determined by the Commissioners to be entitled under the laws of the domicile of such judge at the time of his death. Determination as to the widow or child of a judge for the purposes of
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