Judgment Against Property With Notice To Garnishee In Massachusetts
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Exempting Assets in Massachusetts In Massachusetts, exempt assets include, but are not limited to: pensions, IRA accounts, 401(k) accounts, life insurance, annuities, and, if declared, the homestead exemption amount for your primary residence ($500,000 in 2016).
The Massachusetts Homestead Act is a law under which a homeowner is protected by an Estate of Homestead. A homestead estate provides limited protection of the value of the home, up to $1,000,000, against unsecured creditor claims.
Examples of what you can exempt under Massachusetts law include: Up to $500,000 equity in your home or $1 million for two who are disabled or elderly. $7,500 exemption for your vehicle or up to $15,000 for the handicapped or elderly. Your clothing and bedding.
Creditor exemptions also protect certain categories of personalty, meaning property that is not real estate. The exemptions for personalty protect such common things as clothing, one automobile, pets, cooking utensils, furniture, and the like.
The Attorney General's debt collection regulations prohibit: Calling you at home more than twice for each debt in any seven-day period, or more than twice for each debt in any 30-day period at some place other than your home, such as your place of work. Calling you at work if you have requested that they not call.
Wages may not be garnished by more than one creditor at a time unless the primary garnishment does not take the full 25% allowed by law. (These garnishment restrictions do not apply to certain bankruptcy court orders or debts due for federal or state taxes.)
Under Massachusetts state law, the maximum amount that might be garnished is the lesser of (1) fifteen percent (15%) of weekly gross wages or (2) fifty (50) times the state or federal minimum wage.
Grounds to challenge a garnishment typically include: The garnishment being issued in error. The property being garnished is exempt. The garnishee's response to the garnishment is incorrect.
130). The "judgment against garnishee defendant" means the employer withheld the funds as requested by the Writ. Your husband will continue to be garnished until the debt is satisfied. The plaintiff may need to renew the writ after sixty days.
