Short answer. As a rule, no. The Labor Code requires that wages be paid directly to the workers to whom they are due. A spouse, parent or sibling has no automatic right to collect your pay, and marriage alone is not authority to receive it.
What the law says
Wages shall be paid directly to the workers to whom they are due
Labor Code, Article 105 — Direct Payment Of Wages. Read the full provision →
The narrow doorway for payment through another person
The Code allows payment through someone else only in cases of force majeure rendering direct payment impossible, or under other special circumstances the Secretary of Labor and Employment determines by regulation. Even then, one further condition applies: the worker may be paid through another person under written authority given by the worker for the purpose. Three things follow. The authority must come from you, not from the person collecting. It must be in writing, so a phone call from a relative is not enough. And it must be given for the purpose — a general note written years ago for something else does not convert into a standing licence to hand over your salary. An employer who releases pay on a verbal say-so is exposed if you later say you never received it.
When family pressure is the real issue
This provision is often raised by workers whose pay is being intercepted at home — a spouse who appears at the office on payday, a parent who arranged the job and expects to collect. The law is on the side of the person who earned the money. You may put your position to the employer in writing, ask that wages be released only to you or to your own account, and withdraw any authority you previously signed. Keep a copy and note the date it was received. Note the limit, though: this article governs how the employer must pay. It does not settle what obligations you may owe your family under other laws, and it is not a mechanism for resolving a domestic dispute.
The separate rule when a worker dies
There is one situation where the law positively allows payment to someone other than the worker. Where the worker has died, the employer may pay the wages to the heirs without the necessity of intestate proceedings. The heirs, if all of age, execute an affidavit attesting to their relationship to the deceased and that they are the heirs to the exclusion of all other persons; where an heir is a minor, the natural guardian or next-of-kin executes it on his behalf. The affidavit is presented to the employer, who pays through the Secretary of Labor and Employment or his representative, and that representative acts as referee in dividing the amount among the heirs. Payment made this way absolves the employer of further liability for the amount paid.
If your wages went to someone else
Treat it as unpaid wages, because that is what it is until the employer can show a valid authority. Ask in writing for the document it relied on and for proof of the release — the acknowledgment receipt, the signature, the bank record. If none exists, the payment did not discharge the obligation to you. Claims may be raised with the Department of Labor and Employment or the National Labor Relations Commission, and money claims are subject to time limits, so acting promptly protects your options rather than guaranteeing any particular result.