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A person must be considered a parent of a member for the purposes of determining dependents for allowances if at least one of the following is true:
- The person is a natural parent of the member.
- The person is a stepparent of the member.
- The person is a parent of the member by adoption.
- The person is a parent, stepparent, or adopted parent of the spouse of the member.
- The person is any other person, including a former stepparent, who has stood in loco parentis to the member at any time for a continuous period of at least five years before the member became twenty-one years of age. |