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Examples of garnishment in a Sentence
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Recent Examples of garnishment from the Web
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Last week, the Illinois Supreme Court sent a suit Harvey filed against the comptroller over the garnishments back to the circuit court for a preliminary injunction hearing.
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Lioi has not ruled on whether to approve the garnishment.
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State officials have even gone as far as wage garnishment, Baier said.
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Upon filing, debtors are shielded from garnishments and debt collectors.
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The wage garnishment has gone up in recent years due to budget cuts, according to the Louisiana Sheriffs' Association.
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Borrowers who had been forced to repay with wage garnishments or levies against their bank accounts would now get a temporary reprieve.
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Sarah Dieffenbacher, a single mother of four from California had taken out $50,000 in student loans to study to become a paralegal, but then couldn’t find a job in the field, defaulted on her debt and could face wage garnishment.
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Judges have approved the garnishment of tenants’ wages in nearly all those cases.
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Financial Definition of GARNISHMENT
garnishment
What It Is
Also called wage execution, a garnishment is a process under which money owed or paid to a borrower is given to a creditor instead.
How It Works
Let's say John Doe has stopped paying child support to his ex-wife. His ex-wife takes him to court for the money owed and obtains a garnishment, whereby the court seizes a portion of John's monthly paycheck and automatically gives it to his ex-wife.
One of the most common forms of garnishment is wage garnishment. Wage garnishment is often used to recoup back taxes, delinquent child support or judgments, and the courts have the ability to garnish not just wages, but bonuses, commissions, pension income and distributions from retirement plans. Welfare, unemployment, veterans benefits, social security income, workers compensation and child support payments generally cannot be garnished.
The Consumer Credit Protection Act prohibits employers from firing employees just because their earnings are being garnished, though there are exceptions.
Why It Matters
Garnishments generally require a court order, and they can destroy a person's credit rating. It is important to note that not all things can be garnished; state laws set forth the exemptions. Usually, state laws prohibit garnishing a person's assets to the extent that they leave the borrower with no way to support himself or herself.
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Law Dictionary
legal Definition of garnishment
: a remedial device used by a creditor to have property of the debtor or money owed to the debtor that is in the possession of a third party attached to pay the debt to the creditor;
specifically
: attachment of the debtor's wages to satisfy a judgment — compare wage assignment at assignment
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