An ex-wife was not entitled to a court order for a writ withholding alimony because the couple's divorce agreement was contractual and not based on state law, a Texas appellate court has ruled. In Kee v. Kee, a married couple entered into a Partition or Exchange Agreement prior to their divorce.
To those gamblers who took a chance and ignored their red-light camera tickets and have since received menacing collections notices: Rest easy, for now. The Los Angeles Superior Court has not - and will not - let its collection agency garnish your wages or put a lien on your house or follow through on any of the threats outlined in collections letters.
An evidentiary hearing needed to be conducted to determine if appellant was in contempt for failure to garnish employee's wages.
HUNTINGTON - City officials plan to begin garnishing wages of residents who have delinquent municipal and refuse fees in an effort to fill a $2.5 million deficit in next year's budget. If we believe a resident has the financial resources to pay their fees but simply refuses to, then we will focus our energies on garnishing wages," City attorney Scott McClure said Wednesday. "This isn't a tactic we'll use on everyone, especially those who have no financial means at all. But I know of people who make $60,000, $80,000 and $100,000 a year and aren't paying their fees.
No Way Out," an ominously titled 2006 report by the National Consumer Law Center, notes that "The government can pursue borrowers to the grave." Student loans must be paid back - even if you go bankrupt. Moreover, the government can garnish future wages, seize your tax refunds, and deny eligibility for future government assistance. "Unlike other types of debt," the report notes, "there is no statute of limitations. The company has taken out full-page advertisements in national newspapers, challenging students to ask financial-aid officers questions like, "Do you participate in a revenue-sharing program with any lenders?" (Such programs, the ads assert, are "known as 'kickbacks.'") The ads haven't endeared themselves to financial-aid officers, but company spokesperson Karin Pellman say...
... nontax debt owed to the Commission from the wages of Federal employees from their Federal employment...
By Abbe Smith Register Staff asmith@newhavenregister.com WEST HAVEN -- The city intends to garnish the wages of municipal employees who owe motor vehicle taxes, in an effort to collect money owed to the cash-strapped city.
Dear Debt Adviser, Can a collection company garnish wages before taking me to court? What do I do if they threaten garnishment? How soon can a collector garnish a wage after the collector owns the debt? - Chris
States that allow debt collectors to garnish consumers' wages have sharply higher bankruptcy rates than neighboring states that prohibit or strictly limit the practice, according to an Associated Press analysis. This link highlights a dilemma for credit-card companies and other debt chasers: By going after wages - an increasingly popular maneuver since the recession began, lawyers say - they risk pushing consumers into bankruptcy court, where judges can reduce or wipe away all sorts of financial obligations.
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