Florida Statute 222.07 - 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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222.07 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 amount of property not exceeding, according to such appraisal, the amount of value exempted; but if the person so entitled, or the person’s agent or attorney, does not appear and make such selection, the officer shall make the selection for him or her, and the property not so selected as exempt may be sold.

History.—s. 8, ch. 1715, 1869; RS 2004; GS 2526; RGS 3881; CGL 5788; s. 1200, ch. 95-147.

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In Re Rutter, 247 B.R. 334 (Bankr. M.D. Fla. 2000).

Cited 1 times | Published | United States Bankruptcy Court, M.D. Florida | 13 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. B 139, 2000 Bankr. LEXIS 387, 2000 WL 390419

...705, 15 So.2d 610 (1943) ("The personal property may be in cash, furnishings or any other personalty owned by the head of the family at his death but cannot exceed in value more than one thousand dollars and may be designated by the court something after the manner provided in Sections 222.07 and 222.08, Florida Statutes of 1941, F.S.A.") Furthermore, it is the individual claiming the exemption who is entitled to determine what items of personal property to exempt. See Fla.Stat. § 222.07....

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