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B-191441 1 (1980-06-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadihr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: /39~Z/7~-~ ~0~~LER ~> 'J FILE: B-19144 MATTER OF: DIGEST: - 1 osz 1 .LUATE: Richard D. Bruc - Transportation expense of minor married daughter Forest Service employee requests reconsideration of our decision holding that, incident to his transfer, he could not be reimbursed transportation and related expenses of minor daughter who was married with- out parental consent before traveling to father's new duty station since Federal Travel Regulations limit reimbursement to employee's immediate family and definition of that term excludes married minor children. Since employee has now obtained annulment of daughter's marriage rendering mar- riage a nullity, employee may now be reimbursed daughter's transportation expense. This decision is made pursuant to an appeal of our decision Richard D. Bruce, May 11, 1978, in which we held that Mr. Bruce was not entitled to reimbursement for the transportation and related expenses of his minor married daughter incident to his transfer. Briefly, the facts of that case are that Mr. Bruce's daughter Barbara, then age 16, traveled from her parents' residence in Virginia to North Carolina and there married without the consent of her parents a young man, age 17. She then returned to her family home and traveled with her parents to her father's new duty station at Grangeville, Idaho, without revealing her marriage to her parents. The Forest Service questioned Mr. Bruce's claim on the basis that Barbara was not a member of his immediate family as defined by Federal Travel Regu- lations (FP1MR 101-7) para. 2-1.4d (May 1973). The definition of immediate family in that paragraph excludes minor children who are married. Mr. Bruce argued that Barbara was single since her I -4. THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OECISION .' OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 V. 4 1 .

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