P.R. Laws tit. 25, § 381
In all cases of beneficiaries who are minors or physically or mentally incapacitated, the payment of the death benefits provided in § 380 of this title shall be made through the person under whose custody they are. In all cases of persons who have been deprived of their civil rights, such payments shall be made through the guardian who for the purpose may have been appointed by the proper court.
Whenever a person loses his status of beneficiary for any of the causes provided in §§ 376–387 of this title, except death, the payment of his share of the annuity shall be discontinued.
Upon the death of an employee who is receiving a disability annuity under §§ 376–387 of this title, if the cause of his death bears no relation to the condition for which the annuity was granted to him, there shall be paid to the beneficiaries, in the proportion established in § 380 of this title, or in default of any beneficiary, to the person or persons nominated by the employee in a written order filed with the Administrator, or to his lawful heirs if there is no such written order, the sum of two hundred dollars ($200), or the excess, if any, of the accumulated contributions of the employee in the retirement system of which he was a member on the date of his disability retirement over the retirement annuity payments received by him, whichever amount is higher. The benefits directed in this paragraph shall be paid from its own funds by the retirement system of which the employee was a member at the time of his disability retirement.
History —June 27, 1958, No. 127, p. 300, § 6, eff. July 1, 1958.