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Alabama Garnishment of Wages Laws

Wage garnishment in Alabama is a remedy available to creditors—which means that it is a way that creditors, or people who are owed money, can look...

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Alaska Garnishment of Wages Laws

There’s no point to winning a lawsuit in Alaska against someone if he or she never pays you. That’s where garnishment comes in—it’s a mechan...

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Arizona Garnishment of Wages Laws

Wage garnishment in Arizona is a remedy available to creditors—which means that it is a way that creditors, or people who are owed money, can look...

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Arkansas Garnishment of Wages Laws

How can a creditor collect from a debtor who won’t pay in Arkansas? One option is to use an enforcement mechanism called garnishment. Garnishment ...

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California Garnishment of Wages Laws

Garnishment in California is a procedure creditors can use to collect from debtors who do not voluntarily pay. For example, wage garnishment is when...

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Collecting Unpaid Business Debts

Often, the most difficult part of owning a business is collecting on the unpaid bills of former customers.  However, as collecting money that your ...

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Colorado Garnishment of Wages Laws

Creditors, or people who are owed money, can use wage garnishment in Colorado to collect from debtors, or people who owe them money, who do not pa...

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Connecticut Garnishment of Wages Laws

The bad news for people in Connecticut who owe money is that their creditors—once they have sued and won, thereby establishing their legal right t...

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Debt Collection Agency

Usually, people dread getting a call from a collections agency on some unpaid colleciton agency debt, which the government try to make better via co...

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Debt Collection Options

There are a variety of collection tools available for a business to legally collect its debts, including informal collection procedures, collection ...

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Delaware Garnishment of Wages Laws

Unlike many other states, Delaware only offers very limited protection from wage garnishment, which is when creditors get a court order requiring ...

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District of Columbia Wage Garnishment Laws

Garnishment is a legal remedy that provides a way for creditors to collect from debtors who do not voluntarily pay...

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Florida Garnishment of Wages Laws

Florida wage garnishment is a remedy available to creditors: it is a mechanism by which creditors can collect from debtors who do not otherwise pay ...

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Georgia Garnishment of Wages Laws

Georgia wage garnishment is a way creditors can collect from debtors who do not voluntarily pay. The creditor has part of the debtor’s wages or ...

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Going to Court to Collect Debt

When informal efforts to collect an unpaid debt fail, your only option may be to turn to your local court system for recourse.  Before you take the ...

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Hawaii Garnishment of Wages Laws

When a hawaii creditor threatens to garnish wages, that means that creditor is going to seek an order under which part of the debtor’s wages or ...

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Idaho Garnishment of Wages Laws

When someone (a debtor) from Idaho owes someone else (a creditor) money as a result of a legal order (a judgment) and doesn’t pay, what can the ...

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Illegal Debt Collection Practices

Creditors have a right to be paid. But debt collectors have to follow the rules in seeking payment. There are a number of illegal debt collection pr...

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Illegal Phone Collection Tactics

When most people thing of collections, they imagine being dunned by phone call after phone call. Fortunately, there are phone collections laws—rul...

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Illinois Garnishment of Wages Laws

Garnishment in Illinois is a remedy available to creditors for any debt, including debts resulting from torts (like professional malpractice or au...

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Indiana Garnishment of Wages Laws

Indiana court judgments or other legal orders to pay money are not toothless; the court system has mechanisms to help creditors collect from debto...

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Iowa Garnishment of Wages Laws

Wage garnishment is one way that creditors in Iowa can collect from debtors who do not pay. It’s when a creditor has the debtor’s employer sen...

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Kansas Garnishment of Wages Laws

In Kansas wage garnishment, a creditor obtains an order requiring part of a debtor’s income, such as wages or salary, to be sent to the creditor...

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Kentucky Garnishment of Wages Laws

Garnishment is when money belonging to one person (the debtor) and owed to another (the creditor) and which is in the possession or control of a third...

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Louisiana Garnishment of Wages Laws

Judgment creditors, or people who have legal determinations that they are owed money, can use garnishment to collect from debtors who do not volun...

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Maine Garnishment of Wages Laws

Wage garnishment is a remedy that allows creditors to collect from debtors who will not pay them. It’s when the creditor obtains the legal right...

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Maryland Garnishment of Wages Laws

When a debtor does not pay a creditor on a legally enforceable debt—such as one for which the creditor has a court judgment in its favor—the credi...

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Massachusetts Garnishment of Wages Laws

Wage garnishment in Massachusetts is one way that creditors can collect from debtors who do not or will not pay them. Wage garnishment is when a c...

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Michigan Garnishment of Wages Laws

Wage garnishment is a remedy available to creditors who have not been paid on valid, legally enforceable debts, such as those resulting from court...

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Minnesota Garnishment of Wages Laws

Creditors who are not paid on their legally recognized and enforceable debts have several options to compel payment. One of the best known is wage...

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Mississippi Garnishment of Wages Laws

Wage garnishment is a remedy that allows creditors to recover money from debtors who do not pay them. It is a mechanism by which a creditor gets a...

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Missouri Garnishment of Wages Laws

Garnishment is when a third party, called a garnishee, having possession or control of money belonging or owed to a debtor, is ordered to pay some...

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Montana Wage Garnishment Laws

When a creditor can’t collect on a judgment in its favor, there are several procedures or mechanisms it can use to get money from an unwilling debto...

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Nebraska Wage Garnishment Laws

Debtors who owe money and don’t pay can be faced with garnishment: that is when money belonging (or owed) to the debtor which is in the possession o...

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Nevada Wage Garnishment Laws

Wage garnishment is one of several ways creditors can look collect from debtors who do not voluntarily pay. It’s a mechanism by which a creditor h...

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New Hampshire Wage Garnishment Laws

Sometimes, debtors don’t pay, even when a creditor has a judgment—a court determination—ordering them to pay. However, when that happens, cred...

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New Jersey Wage Garnishment Laws

What is garnishment? Garnishment is a way that creditors (people or businesses owed money) can look to collect from debtors (those who owe them mone...

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New Mexico Wage Garnishment Laws

Garnishment is when a creditor has the right to take property of or money owed to a debtor—which is in the control of a third party—to satisfy d...

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New York Wage Garnishment Laws

Garnishment is a way that creditors can recover money from a debtor who won’t pay them voluntarily. It involves getting an order requiring someone...

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North Carolina Wage Garnishment Laws

Wage garnishment is a powerful remedy available to creditors: it allows creditors to have part of a debtor’s wages or salary sent to the creditor,...

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North Dakota Wage Garnishment Laws

When a debtor does not pay a creditor after the creditor has already obtained a court judgment that the debtor should pay, the creditor can use seve...

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Ohio Wage Garnishment Laws

Wage garnishment is one of several ways that creditors can enforce a monetary judgment (court order that someone pay them money) against debtors who...

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Oklahoma Wage Garnishment Laws

If a debtor does not pay a creditor who has a court judgment in the creditor’s favor, the creditor does not need to take it lying down. Instead, t...

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Oregon Wage Garnishment Laws

Wage garnishment is a remedy available to creditors: it is when a creditor has the legal right to have part of the debtor’s wages or salary sent to ...

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Pennsylvania Wage Garnishment Laws

In most states, wage garnishment is a remedy available to creditors—a way for them to collect from debtors who do not voluntarily pay. In wage gar...

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Repossession

No, it’s not what happens when an exorcism doesn’t work…repossession is when the seller of something takes it back because the buyer has misse...

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Rhode Island Wage Garnishment Laws

So wage garnishment is when a creditor gets a court order requiring a debtor’s employer, as garnishee, to turn over to it a portion of the debtor...

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South Carolina Wage Garnishment Laws

Wage garnishment is common way creditors can collect from debtors who do not pay. The creditor obtains a court order that causes part of the debtor...

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South Dakota Wage Garnishment Laws

Court judgments for money—orders that one party has to pay another—create legally enforceable debts. Once someone has sued on a contract, a prom...

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Tennessee Wage Garnishment Laws

Garnishment is available for any debt, whether arising out of consumer transactions or credit cards, contracts or promissory notes, taxes, alimony o...

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Texas Wage Garnishment Laws

The short description of wage garnishment in Texas is: there isn’t any.

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Using a Debt Collection Agency

While many business owners will first attempt to collect unpaid debts on their own, the time and effort that it takes to successfully collect these ...

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Utah Wage Garnishment Laws

When a debtor refuses to pay a creditor who has a judgment (a court determination) directing payment, the creditor can invoke several mechanisms to re...

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Vermont Wage Garnishment Laws

What is “garnishment”? It’s a legal process that is used to enforce monetary judgments, or court determinations that one party (a debtor) owes a...

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Virginia Wage Garnishment Laws

Garnishment is one way that a creditor can seek payment from a debtor who is not voluntarily paying a monetary judgment (or court determination of an ...

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Washington Wage Garnishment Laws

Washington creditors who are not paid by their debtors on a legally recognized debt can use garnishment to secure repayment. In garnishment, the credi...

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West Virginia Wage Garnishment Laws

It’s not enough to have a monetary judgment, or court determination that someone else owes you money. If you are a creditor, you want to have some...

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Wisconsin Wage Garnishment Laws

Most people have heard the term “garnishment,” but what is it?

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Writing a Debt Collection Letter

The first step that most businesses take in attempting to collect an unpaid debt is to send a letter to the individual or business who owes the mone...

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Wyoming Wage Garnishment Laws

When someone sues another on a debt or cause of action and wins (obtains a favorable court judgment), the debtor should pay voluntarily.

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Zombie Debts

  Many times, creditors sell off their old debt to debt collectors. Some of these debt collectors may further sell off such debts to other debt co...

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