Garnishment definition

Garnishment means any legal or equitable procedure through which the earnings of an individual are required to be withheld for payment of a debt.

Garnishment means any legal or equitable procedure through which one or more of the following are required to be withheld for payment of an amount a person owes:

Garnishment means any legal or equitable proceedings through which the earnings of an individual are required to be withheld by a garnishee, by the individual debtor, or by any other person for the payment of a judgment; and

Examples of Garnishment in a sentence

• STATE OF MINNESOTACOUNTY OF ..................................................................................................................(Creditor)against...............................................................(Debtor)DISTRICT COURT........................................JUDICIAL DISTRICT EXEMPTION NOTICEand..........................................................(Garnishee) A Garnishment Summons is being served upon you.

• Fees to issue and deliver Writ of Garnishment (include fees paid on debt calculation form):Issuance Fee: Paid to Court when issued – verify with court before submitting or at http://courts.oregon.gov/OJD/docs/courts/circuit/fee_schedule_public.pdfDelivery Fee: Paid to Sheriff, private process server or Post Office - You must verify delivery fee first.

• State Law reference— Garnishment, V.T.C.A. Civil Practice and Remedies Code, § 63.001 et seq.; garnishment of municipal funds, V.T.C.A. Local Government Code, § 101.023.

• Garnishment of pay for child support, taxes, etc., government recouping overpayment of pay or travel entitlements, and any pay shortage as the result of the client's actions or inactions are examples of items that may result in a client's pay being less than normal, but are not considered a pay problem.

• If you are using the single part Stevens-Ness forms, once you have completed the forms, you will need to make four (4) copies of the Writ of Garnishment and Garnishee Response and one (1) copy of the Debt Calculation.

More Definitions of Garnishment

Garnishment means an installment payment order under Title 14, chapter 502. [PL 1973, c. 762, §1 (NEW).]

Garnishment means the process of withholding amounts from an employ- ee’s disposable pay and the paying of those amounts to GSA in satisfaction of a withholding order.

Garnishment means the process of withholding amounts from the dispos- able pay of a person employed outside the federal government, and the paying of those amounts to a creditor in satis- faction of a withholding order.

Garnishment means the process of withholding amounts from an employee’s disposable pay and paying those amounts to a creditor in satisfaction of a withholding order.

Garnishment means any legal or equitable procedure through which one or more

Garnishment means any legal or equitable procedure through which the earnings of an individual are required to be withheld for payment of a debt.2. a. In addition to the provisions of section 642.21, the maximum part of the aggregate disposable earnings of an individual for any workweek which is subjected to garnishment to enforce payment of a judgment arising from a consumer credit transaction may not exceed the lesser of twenty-five percent of the individual’s disposable earnings for that week, or the amount by which the individual’s disposable earnings for that week exceed forty times the federal minimum hourly wage prescribed by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, 29 U.S.C. §206(a)(1), in effect at the time the earnings are payable.b. In the case of earnings for a pay period other than a week, the administrator shall prescribe by rule a multiple of the federal minimum hourly wage equivalent in effect to that set forth for a pay period of a week.3. No court may make, execute, or enforce an order or process in violation of this section.

Garnishment means any legal or equitable procedure