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Before most creditors can garnish your income, they must file a lawsuit against you and win a judgment. Step 1: The Creditor Gets a Judgment Against You. ... Step 2: The Creditor Gets a Garnishment Order & Delivers It to Your Employer. ... Step 3: You Get a Copy of the Garnishment Order & Can Claim Exemptions and Make Objections.

In Missouri, any creditor who sues you and gets a money judgment against you can garnish your wages. The creditor doesn't have to be the original person or business you owed money to. It can also be a debt buyer, a debt collector, or a collection agency.

A ?bank garnishment? is a court order directing a garnishee (you) to seize all money held in a judgment debtor's (defendant) bank account. The bank garnishment is good for 30, 60, 90 or 180 days, at the choice of the judgment creditor (plaintiff). The expiration date of the bank garnishment is called the "return date."

Satisfaction of Judgment: Once a defendant has paid-off a judgment, this form is used by the person receiving the money or property to let the court know that the judgment has been paid. Do not use this form to satisfy a judgment that contains an ongoing obligation, i.e. child support or maintenance.

Most often, a creditor does so by petitioning a court to issue an order (or ?writ of garnishment?) to an employer (or ?garnishee?) that instructs the employer to pay or deliver a certain amount of an employee's wages or other income to the creditor.

90.08. If the garnishee fails to answer or improperly answers interrogatories, the court shall, upon motion, order the garnishee to answer or properly answer the interrogatories.