Florida Statutes Title XV Chapter 222 - Method Of Setting Apart Homestead And Exemptions

• 222.01 - Designation Of Homestead By Owner Before Levy.
  (1) Whenever any natural person residing in this state desires to avail himself or herself of the benefit of the provisions of the constitution and laws...
• 222.02 - Designation Of Homestead After Levy.
  Whenever a levy is made upon the lands, tenements, mobile home, or modular home of such person whose homestead has not been set apart and...
• 222.03 - Survey At Instance Of Dissatisfied Creditor.
  If the creditor in any execution or process sought to be levied is dissatisfied with the quantity of land selected and set apart, and shall...
• 222.04 - Sale After Survey.
  After such survey has been made, the officer making the levy may sell the property levied upon not included in such property set off in...
• 222.05 - Setting Apart Leasehold.
  Any person owning and occupying any dwelling house, including a mobile home used as a residence, or modular home, on land not his or her...
• 222.061 - Method Of Exempting Personal Property; Inventory.
  (1) When a levy is made by writ of execution, writ of attachment, or writ of garnishment upon personal property which is allowed by law or...
• 222.07 - Defendant’s Rights Of Selection.
  Upon the completion of the inventory the person entitled to the exemption, or the person’s agent or attorney, may select from such an inventory an...
• 222.08 - Jurisdiction To Set Apart Homestead And Exemption.
  The circuit courts have equity jurisdiction to order and decree the setting apart of homesteads and of exemptions of personal property from forced sales.History.—s. 2,...
• 222.09 - Injunction To Prevent Sale.
  The circuit courts have equity jurisdiction to enjoin the sale of all property, real and personal, that is exempt from forced sale.History.—s. 1, ch. 3246,...
• 222.10 - Jurisdiction To Subject Property Claimed To Be Exempt.
  The circuit courts have equity jurisdiction upon bill filed by a creditor or other person interested in enforcing any unsatisfied judgment or decree, to determine...
• 222.11 - Exemption Of Wages From Garnishment.
  (1) As used in this section, the term:(a) “Earnings” includes compensation paid or payable, in money of a sum certain, for personal services or labor whether denominated...
• 222.13 - Life Insurance Policies; Disposition Of Proceeds.
  (1) Whenever any person residing in the state shall die leaving insurance on his or her life, the said insurance shall inure exclusively to the benefit...
• 222.14 - Exemption Of Cash Surrender Value Of Life Insurance Policies And Annuity Contracts From Legal Process.
  The cash surrender values of life insurance policies issued upon the lives of citizens or residents of the state and the proceeds of annuity contracts...
• 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...
• 222.16 - Wages Or Reemployment Assistance Or Unemployment Compensation Payments So Paid Not Subject To Administration.
  Any wages, travel expenses, or reemployment assistance or unemployment compensation payments so paid under the authority of s. 222.15 shall not be considered as assets...
• 222.17 - Manifesting And Evidencing Domicile In Florida.
  (1) Any person who shall have established a domicile in this state may manifest and evidence the same by filing in the office of the clerk...
• 222.18 - Exempting Disability Income Benefits From Legal Processes.
  Disability income benefits under any policy or contract of life, health, accident, or other insurance of whatever form, shall not in any case be liable...
• 222.20 - Nonavailability Of Federal Bankruptcy Exemptions.
  In accordance with the provision of s. 522(b) of the Bankruptcy Code of 1978 (11 U.S.C. s. 522(b)), residents of this state shall not be...
• 222.201 - Availability Of Federal Bankruptcy Exemptions.
  (1) Notwithstanding s. 222.20, an individual debtor under the federal Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 may exempt, in addition to any other exemptions allowed under state...
• 222.21 - Exemption Of Pension Money And Certain Tax-exempt Funds Or Accounts From Legal Processes.
  (1) Money received by any debtor as pensioner of the United States within 3 months next preceding the issuing of an execution, attachment, or garnishment process...
• 222.22 - Exemption Of Assets In Qualified Tuition Programs, Medical Savings Accounts, Coverdell Education Savings Accounts, And Hurricane Savings Accounts From Legal Process.
  (1) Moneys paid into or out of, the assets of, and the income of any validly existing qualified tuition program authorized by s. 529 of the...
• 222.25 - Other Individual Property Of Natural Persons Exempt From Legal Process.
  The following property is exempt from attachment, garnishment, or other legal process:(1) A debtor’s interest, not to exceed $1,000 in value, in a single motor vehicle...
• 222.29 - No Exemption For Fraudulent Transfers.
  An exemption from attachment, garnishment, or legal process provided by this chapter is not effective if it results from a fraudulent transfer or conveyance as...
• 222.30 - Fraudulent Asset Conversions.
  (1) As used in this section, “conversion” means every mode, direct or indirect, absolute or conditional, of changing or disposing of an asset, such that the...

Last modified: September 23, 2016