When a parent of a minor dies, the surviving grandparent may want to ensure that their own child's hopes for and obligations to the grandchild are fulfilled.
Said is now in a reception center for children in Catania, Sicily, along with the three other minors who survived the tragedy.
Here, right away, was a reminder of how the small-timers live, a sampling of surviving the minor leagues.
The Swiss won 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, surviving a minor scare when, having raced to 5-1 in the final set, she could not at once close out the match.
So far we're just surviving on minor donations of £100 and £200, but hopefully we'll get some bigger donations as the campaign goes on.
To qualify, a family must have lost an earner who had paid Social Security taxes, and who left minor children or a surviving spouse who is 60 or older.
Nuñez delivers a glittering cascade of leaps and turns, coolly surviving a minor hairdressing crisis, and Acosta shows us that he can still summon the old skills and the old insouciant style.
What emerged was an appalling pattern of assumptions that the vehicle could survive minor mishaps and be pushed even further.
Some of the book's minor characters even survive this hard-boiled story and stand ready for another one.
The best way for minor parties to survive coalition government is to find some means of maintaining a sharply distinct identity.
