Get Writ Of Continuing Garnishment. Colorado Writ, Garnishment, C.r.c.p. Form 26

The Debt Collection Improvement Act authorizes federal agencies or collection agencies under contract with them to garnish up to 15% of disposable earnings to repay defaulted debts owed to the U.S. government.

This Writ with Notice is a Court order which may cause your property or money to be held and taken to pay a judgment entered against you. You have legal rights which may prevent all or part of your money or property from being taken. That part of the money or property which may not be taken is called “exempt property”.

Under Colorado law, garnishing an employee's wages for debt from a consumer credit transaction is expressly prohibited unless judgment has been entered by a court.

The money will be given to Creditor. This process will continue for 6 months unless your debt is paid off before that.

A Writ of Garnishment is effective for 182 days (or 91 days, for a judgment that was entered before 8/8/2001). Once the effective period for a Writ ends, payment will begin on the next Writ in line. Can I go to jail if I don't pay a judgment entered against me?

Under current law, the amount of an individual's disposable earnings subject to garnishment is either 25% of the individual's disposable weekly earnings or the amount by which an individual's disposable earnings for a week exceed 30 times the state or federal minimum wage, whichever is less.

(a) Definitions. (1) "Writ of garnishment for support" means the exclusive procedure for withholding the earnings of a judgment debtor for payment of a judgment debt for child support arrearages, maintenance when combined with child support, or child support debts, or maintenance.

A writ of continuing garnishment serves as a lien and continuing levy against the nonexempt earnings of the judgment debtor, until such time earnings are no longer due; the underlying judgment is vacated, modified or satisfied in full; or the writ is dismissed.