Article 501 Federal Labor Law

Shall be entitled to receive compensation (indemnity) in the cases of death or disappearance derived from a criminal act:

I.The widow or the widower, the children under eighteen years of age and those older than this age if they have a disability of fifty percent or more, as well as the children up to twenty-five years of age who are studying in some institution of the national educational system; in no case shall the investigation of economic dependence be carried out, since these claimants have the presumption in their favor of economic dependence;

II.The ascendants shall concur with the persons mentioned in the previous section without the need to carry out an economic investigation, unless it is proven that they did not depend economically on the employee;

III.In the absence of a surviving spouse, the person with whom the employee lived as if she were his spouse during the five years immediately preceding his death, or with whom he had children, shall concur with the persons indicated in the two previous sections, without the need to carry out an economic investigation, provided that both had remained free of marriage during the cohabitation;

IV.The persons who depended economically on the employee shall concur with those contemplated in any of the hypotheses of the previous sections, and must prove the economic dependence, and

V.In the absence of the persons mentioned in the previous sections, the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS).