Family pension and legal heirship

abhishek (Querist) 17 May 2013 This query is : Resolved
if a woman having child from person 'A' and falsely claiming to be second wife of person 'B' only because she acted as a caretaker,person'B' already had a lawfully wedded wife with three children.what would be her chances on claim for family pension and other benefits ? please reply
who would be the legal heir of the deceased person?

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ajay sethi (Expert) 17 May 2013
shw wont be entitled to family pension . only lawfully wedded wife can claim

Adv k . mahesh (Expert) 17 May 2013
only first wife will be entitled for family pension

Guest (Expert) 17 May 2013
Only legally wedded wife forms part of the family of an employee for the purpose of family pension.

For other benefits, like gratuity, GPF, employees insurance scheme, only the person nominated as such by the employee would be entitled to claim such benefits. If no nomination is made by the employee during his service period, only his legally weded wife or any other family member, who produced a succession certificate, would become entitled to claim.

Raj Kumar Makkad (Expert) 18 May 2013
During the pendancy of the first marriage, the second marriage even otherwise is illegal and in the given case, such term even is not in vogue so the question of getting family pension by that stranger lady do not arise.