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May 25, 2011

LODD UPDATE: TEXAS JUDGE RULES TRANSGENDER WIDOW MARRIAGE IS NOT VALID, SURVIVOR IS NOT QUALIFIED TO RECEIVE FALLEN FIREFIGHTER BENEFITS

A Wharton County (Texas) judge declared today that a transgender widow’s marriage to Wharton Firefighter Thomas Araguz, who died in the Line of Duty, was not valid, so she is not eligible for his Federal PSOB death benefits. Ever since FF Thomas Araguz died at that fire at an egg farm last year, his family has been fighting...
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