Opinion ID: 1848390
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Heading: treatment of the exemption

Text: As previously mentioned, this Court's homestead exemption jurisprudence has long been guided by a policy favoring the liberal construction of the exemption: Organic and statutory provisions relating to homestead exemptions should be liberally construed in the interest of the family home. Milton, 58 So. at 719. A concomitant in harmony with this rule of liberal construction is the rule of strict construction as applied to the exceptions. See, e.g., Quigley v. Kennedy & Ely Ins., Inc., 207 So.2d 431, 432 (Fla.1968). [5] Indeed, this strict construction of the exceptions proved paramount in our most recent inquiries into the homestead exemption in the context of civil and criminal forfeitures.