Question juridique clé
Whether the widow met the statutory conditions for a survivor pension because she had children in her care.
Solution extraite
No. Under the fund statutes, only care of a biological or adopted child of the deceased qualifies as a dependent child for the survivor pension.
Motifs extraits
The statutes must be read together: Article 44(a) refers to a child in the sense of Article 49, and Article 49 incorporates civil-law filiation. The claimant cared only for children from earlier marriages who were not children of the deceased.