garnishee

VERB
  1. take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support
    His employer garnished his wages in order to pay his debt
NOUN
  1. a wage earner who is served with a garnishment
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How To Use garnishee In A Sentence

  • What these people should do is be dragged through a three-month process of meetings, phone calls, letters of various threat levels, the hiring of a tax defense attorney, several arbitrary and probably highly unfair levies of additional penalties, the destruction of their credit rating, at least one garnisheed paycheck, and at least one typical bureaucratic screwup that takes five days of excruciating nit-picking to resolve. Ron Kirk Nomination Raises Question: Is Obama Vetting To Ensure He Picks People Who Do Not Pay Taxes? - Dan_McLaughlin’s blog - RedState
  • The Maintenance Act provides mechanisms for the enforcement of maintenance orders, such as emolument attachments, attachment of property and garnishee orders. December 2005
  • Many creditors will attempt to "garnishee" your wages. Xml's Blinklist.com
  • it was held that such a balance was a debt attachable by means of a garnishee order.
  • A person who has defaulted on child support would lose their passport and have their wages garnisheed.
  • I –hate– the sound of “garnishee,” “garnish” sounds much more natural. The Volokh Conspiracy » Horace Comes to Law School:
  • California doesn't allow debt collectors to garnishee the bank accounts of delinquent borrowers. In Debt Collecting, Location Matters
  • Upon being granted a writ of garnisheement, the creditor is known as a garnisheeor, and the debtor as a garnisheeee. The Volokh Conspiracy » Horace Comes to Law School:
  • To suggest that a Writ of Delivery might issue before an action has been commenced and an order obtained is tantamount to suggesting that one may collect a debt owing simply by initiating a Notice of Motion and requesting a garnishee.
  • In a day dominated by familiar stump speeches, Hillary Clinton made news by saying she might allow workers 'wages to be garnisheed if they refuse to buy health insurance. CNN Poll: Obama Leads Hillary Nationally By Three Points
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