Florida Statute 222.15 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XV
HOMESTEAD AND EXEMPTIONS

Chapter 222
METHOD OF SETTING APART HOMESTEAD AND EXEMPTIONS

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222.15 Wages or reemployment assistance or unemployment compensation payments due deceased employee may be paid spouse or certain relatives.—

(1) It is lawful for any employer, in case of the death of an employee, to pay to the wife or husband, and in case there is no wife or husband, then to the child or children, provided the child or children are over the age of 18 years, and in case there is no child or children, then to the father or mother, any wages or travel expenses that may be due such employee at the time of his or her death.

(2) It is also lawful for the Department of Commerce, in case of death of any unemployed individual, to pay to those persons referred to in subsection (1) any reemployment assistance or unemployment compensation payments that may be due to the individual at the time of his or her death.

History.—s. 1, ch. 7366, 1917; RGS 4979; CGL 7068; s. 1, ch. 20407, 1941; s. 1, ch. 63-165; ss. 17, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 1, ch. 73-283; s. 10, ch. 79-7; s. 5, ch. 83-174; s. 1203, ch. 95-147; s. 7, ch. 2003-36; s. 96, ch. 2011-142; s. 52, ch. 2012-30; s. 61, ch. 2024-6.

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Mazzella v. Boinis, 617 So. 2d 1156 (Fla. 4th DCA 1993).

Cited 4 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 1993 WL 164891

...[2] In support of her position, Mazzella offers as examples of such restrictive language: (1) the homestead exemption provision in our constitution, which states in part that "homestead shall not be subject to devise if the owner is survived by spouse or minor child," Art. X, Sec. 4(c), Florida Constitution; and (2) section 222.15 authorizing payment of wages due a deceased employee to a child or children provided they "are over the age of 18 years." Mazzella also refers to section 440.02(5), Florida's Compensation Act, and section 238.07(16)(a)2 of the Florida...

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Plymouth Cordage Co. v. Ward, 202 So. 2d 600 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1967).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1967 Fla. App. LEXIS 4305

...rrender .value of life insurance policies issued on the life of a nonresident judgment debtor prior to the time that the judgment debtor (in *601 sured) exercises his option to surrender the policy for its cash surrender value. Appellant argues that Section 222.15, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., exempts from garnishment the cash surrender value of life insurance policies issued to Florida residents only, and since Ward is a resident of California, the statute is not available to him and the trial judge erred in dissolving the writ....

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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 2009).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

leave may be made to the relatives set forth in section 222.15(1), Florida Statutes, upon the employee's death

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