
How the Process Works
November 13, 2019An ‘eligible person’ definition is wide and includes:
- the surviving wife or husband;
- a former wife or husband of the deceased;
- Surviving de facto partner including same sex couples;
- a child of the deceased (including an adopted child)
- a person who was, at any particular time, entirely or partly dependent on the deceased, and who is a grandchild of the deceased or was at that particular time a member of the same household as the deceased
- a person with whom the deceased was living in a close personal relationship at the time of the deceased person’s death.