This is an official Washington court form for use in Garnishment cases, a Notice to Defendant of Non-Responsive Exemption Claim. Available in Word or rich text format.
This is an official Washington court form for use in Garnishment cases, a Notice to Defendant of Non-Responsive Exemption Claim. Available in Word or rich text format.
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The court order is called a garnishment. What's important to know is that federal benefits ordinarily are exempt from garnishment. That means you should be able to protect your federal funds from being taken by your creditors, although you might have to go to court to do so.
Written proof of service is required, such as an affidavit of service or the signed return receipt. The writ must be served with 4 answer forms, 3 stamped envelopes addressed to the court, judgment debtor, and judgment creditor, and a $20 check payable to the garnishee defendant (except wage garnishments).
Washington State Suspends Wage Garnishments of Consumer Debt Judgments During COVID-19 Pandemic.
In most states, employers answer a writ of garnishment by filling out the paperwork attached to the judgment and returning it to the creditor or the creditor's attorney.
Consumer debt includes medical debt. The proclamation prohibits garnishments of wages, consumer bank accounts, or other income, including stimulus payments received under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, to satisfy these consumer debt judgments.
In Washington, most creditors can garnish the lesser of (subject to some exceptionsmore below): 25% of your weekly disposable earnings, or. your weekly disposable earnings less 35 times the federal minimum hourly wage.
The Order dissolves the existing writ of garnishment. It means that whatever was being garnished, wages or bank accounts, are no longer subject to the writ of garnishment.
What you can do about wage garnishment.You have to be legally notified of the garnishment. You can file a dispute if the notice has inaccurate information or you believe you don't owe the debt. Some forms of income, such as Social Security and veterans benefits, are exempt from garnishment as income.
If you are served with a garnishment summons, do not ignore these documents because they do not directly involve a debt that you owe. Instead, you should immediately freeze any payments to the debtor, retain the necessary property, and provide the required written disclosure.