I was just wondering how this works. I assume someone sues you, they win, get a court judgement and the court orders the payroll department to take some of your money from your paycheck each week.
But how much are they allowed to take.
I was wondering cause I read a book on Jeffrey Dahmer and he said the hardest thing about prison was giving up smokes and coffee. He said he earned 25 cents an hour in prison, and some of the families filed a civil suit against him and attached his 25 cents an hour. So now he had to work but got no money to buy coffee or cigarettes
I was just wondering though in real life can they take ALL your wages. I also read in a bio on Dick Haymes, on how he had the clubs pay him in cash or pay his, then wife, Rita Heyworth, because the IRS attached all his money.
I am not disputing the validity of this, but it seems if they can take ALL your money and leave you with nothing to live on, it kills the whole purpose of trying to earn money to pay back the debt
Depends on what the court orders. I employee one person currently who’s wages are garnished for child support. He is to pay $95.20 (after tax) or 50% of his net pay. Which ever is less. (That is to say, if his take home pay one week is $160, I only mail out $80). I had another employee who’s percentage, I beleive, was 65% off the top of my head. I know it was more then 50%.
Oh, and I don’t know about jail, but in the real world, I can’t see them taking all your money. Why even bother working then, and if you don’t work, the whomever is garnishing your wages doesn’t get anything either.
Where I work, there is a wage garnishment law that sets up all the procedures to garnish somebody’s wages. I believe the limit is 10%. There may be exceptions for situations like unpaid child support or criminals who are sued by their victims.
Probably if you do a google search on “wage” “garnishment” and the name of your jurisdiction, you can find out what the rule is where you live.
There may also be federal rules about wage garnishment.