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State and federal law protects some money, including wages, from garnishment even if it is in a bank. Some common exemptions are benefits from social security, supplemental security income, unemployment, workers' compensation, the Veterans' Administration, state pension, retirement funds, and disability income.

In Georgia, a creditor can garnish the lesser of 25% of your disposable income or the amount by which your disposable earnings exceed 30% of federal minimum wage. If your disposable income is less than 30 times minimum wage, it cannot be garnished at all.

You will need the following forms: one Affidavit for Garnishment; one Summons of Garnishment; two copies of the Summons (one for the garnishee, the other for the Debtor Defendant); and two Marshall's Entry of Service sheets (one for the garnishee, one for the Debtor Defendant).

To file an exemption for wage garnishment, you must file the Claim of Exemption (WG-006). By doing this, you will explain to the Sheriff why some or all of the wages the creditor wants your employer to garnish should be exempt. Wage garnishment and bankruptcy are not for everyone to handle.

The creditor files garnishment paperwork with the court and serves your employer. Once a creditor has a judgment it's called a judgment creditor. The judgment creditor then files an Affidavit of Continuing Garnishment for Wages with a Georgia court and serves this paperwork on your employer ? called the garnishee.

You can expect wage garnishment to stop when you: Challenge a judgment by filing wage garnishment proceedings and asking for wage garnishments to stop through a claim of exemption. Pay off all or some of the debt through a Chapter 13 repayment plan. Discharge the debt by filing for bankruptcy under Chapter 7 provisions.