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Garnishment Collection
"Garnishment" is a method of forced debt collection mandated by a legal decision and enforced by an official court order. In the garnishment process, the court orders a third party to take money that would normally be paid to the defendant and to pay it to the plaintiff instead.
The most common form of garnishment is wage garnishment. As a consequence of a legal judgment an amount of money is deducted from an employee's wages by court order and given over to an individual or entity to which that employee owes money. Common uses for garnishment are to pay child support, income taxes, and unpaid court fines. Garnishments may be ordered to collect any type of monetary obligation.
In the United States, federal law limits the amount that may be garnished from an individual's wages to 25 percent of that individual's disposable income. In the case of multiple obligations, the disbursement of the garnishment is on a tiered basis. For instance the collected funds would be used to pay federal income taxes before credit card debts were paid.
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