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2. Military events and activities <br />3. Child-care and school activities <br />4. Financial and legal arrangements <br />5. Counseling <br />6. Rest and recuperation <br />7Post-deployment activities <br />8. Parental care <br />9. Additional activities that arise out of active duty provided that the employer and employee agree, <br />including agreement on timing and duration of the leave. <br />Military Caregiver Leave <br />An employee eligible for FML.A leave (described above) who is the spouse, son, daughter, or parent, or <br />next of kin of a covered servicemember may take up to 26 weeks in a single 12-month period to take -care <br />fle. __e to cave for that servicemember. <br />The family member must be a current member of the Armed Forces (including a member of the <br />National Guard or Reserves), who has a serious injury or illness incurred in the line of duty on active <br />duty for which he or she is undergoing medical treatment, recuperation, or therapy, or otherwise is on <br />outpatient status or on the temporary disability retired list. <br />Eligible employees may not take leave under this provision to care for former members of the Armed <br />Forces, former members of the National Guard and Reserves, and members on the permanent disability <br />retired list. <br />Definitions <br />Son/Daughter of a covered servicemember - The biological, adopted, or foster child,= stepchild, <br />legal l-ward, or a child for whom the covered servicemember stood in loco parentis, and who is of any <br />age. <br />Parent of a covered servicemember - The biological, adoptive, step, or foster father or mother, or any <br />other individual who stood' loco parentis to the covered servicemember. This term does not include <br />parents "in law." <br />Next of kin of a covered servicemember - Is the nearest blood relative, other than the covered <br />servicemember's spouse, parent, son, or daughter, in the following order of priority: blood relatives who <br />have been granted legal custody of the servicemember by court decree or statutory provisions, brothers <br />and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and first cousins, unless the covered servicemember has <br />specifically designated in writing another blood relative as his or her nearest blood relative for purposes <br />of military caregiver leave under the FML.A. <br />When no such designation is made, and there are multiple family members with the same level of <br />relationship to the covered servicemember, all such family members shall be considered the covered <br />servicemember's next of kin and may take FML.A leave to provide care to the covered servicemember, <br />27 <br />