P.R. Laws tit. 9, § 2053a
The following persons shall be deemed as beneficiaries of the victim with the rights and limitations established hereinbelow:
(1) The children of the victim under eighteen (18) years of age on the date of the accident.
(2) The children of the victim between the ages of eighteen (18) and twenty-one (21) who depended on the victim and were students at the moment of the accident.
(3) The husband or wife of the victim who depends thereon for his support.
(4) The parents of the victim when they depended thereon for their support because they were unable to provide for themselves and have no other means of support.
(5) Any person who depends on the victim and is unable to support himself without help therefrom.
If in the cases of beneficiaries provided in subsection (3) of this section legal spouses and persons living in a state of concubinage should occur, the benefit shall be paid to the one who proves his dependency on the victim, and if the dependency requirement occurs in both, it shall be adjudicated and divided in equal shares between both beneficiaries. Funeral expenses shall be adjudicated to the one who can prove having incurred them.
History —June 26, 1968, No. 138, p. 335, § 3; Mar. 20, 1972, No. 8, p. 16; renumbered as § 4 on Oct. 30, 1975, No. 12, p. 782, § 2; July 1, 1986, No. 54, p. 185, § 2.