In one recent case from Arkansas, Estate of Slaughter v. City of Hampton Mun. League WC Trust, 102 Ark. App. 373, 285 S.W.3d 669, review denied, 2008 Ark. LEXIS 786 (2008), the executrix and employee were not married at the time of the compensable injury. They were, however, living together, and the executrix was dependent on the employee. Shortly before the employee died, he and the executrix were married. The Commission denied widow’s benefits to the executrix because she was not married to the employee when he suffered his injury. The executrix argued that the mere fact that she was married to and wholly dependent on the employee for her support when he died entitled her to widow’s benefits.
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