Late Fathers' Later Children: Reconceiving the Limits of Survivor's Benefits in Response to Death-Defying Reproductive Technology

Late Fathers' Later Children: Reconceiving the Limits of Survivor's Benefits in Response to Death-Defying Reproductive Technology

Late Fathers' Later Children: Reconceiving the Limits of Survivor's Benefits in Response to Death-Defying Reproductive Technology

When Congress instructed the Social Security Administration to begin paying a social insurance benefit to “widows and orphans” in the 1930s, it simplified the process of determining an applicant’s relationship to an insured decedent in two significant ways: First, Congress ordered the agency to honor the intestate laws of each state when determining whether an applicant was actually the child of…

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