As used in this chapter:
(1) "Child" includes stepchildren, legally adopted children, posthumous children and recognized children born out of wedlock, but does not include married children unless actually dependent;
(2) "Brother" and "sister" includes stepbrothers, stepsisters and brothers and sisters of the half blood or by adoption, but excludes married brothers or sisters unless actually dependent;
(3) "Grandchild" includes children of adopted children or stepchildren, but excludes stepchildren of children or of adopted children and married children;
(4) "Parent" includes stepparents and parents by adoption; and
(5) "Adopted" and "adoption" include cases where the persons are legally adopted. Effective: July 13, 1984. History: Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 16, sec. 7, effective July 13, 1984. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 4895.
Notes of Decisions
Simpson v. Simpson, 586 S.W.2d 33 (Ky. 1979).
· cites it 2× “010(5) (stepparent included in the definition of parent); KRS 342.085(4) (stepparent included in the definition of parent under the workmen's compensation law); KRS 40.”
Steven Lee Enter. v. Varney, 36 S.W.3d 391 (Ky. 2000).
· cites it 2× “f a marriage existing on the date of the compensable event, but not to after-born children of subsequent marriages (or, for that matter, to after-acquired spouses, new stepbrothers and stepsisters, new brothers and sisters by the half-blood, new stepparents, and the children of…”
Davis v. Johnson, 295 S.W.3d 841 (Ky. Ct. App. 2009).
“080 (stepchildren placed on the same footing as biological and adopted children as class A beneficiaries when establishing inheritance tax rates); KRS 342.085 (stepchildren included in the definition of “child” for purposes of workers’ compensation statutes).”
— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 342.085(4) — 1 case
Simpson v. Simpson, 586 S.W.2d 33 (Ky. 1979).
“010(5) (stepparent included in the definition of parent); KRS 342.085(4) (stepparent included in the definition of parent under the workmen's compensation law); KRS 40.”
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