Re: question for JKelly

Posted by Drew (24.59.25.2) on July 25, 2004 at 22:27:59:

In Reply to: Re: question for JKelly posted by scared sick on July 25, 2004 at 14:03:56:

Yep they can garnish wages. Protecting your assets means making yourself and your assets harder to locate. If you have a checking account, close it and get another one preferrably in a different town and have your spouse listed as primary with you as secondary. Or if you want to keep that one open, keep it open but keep as little money in there as possible. Once they get the judgment against you, they can levy your bank account and collect all the money in there, and they don't have to give you notice that they are doing it, especially if they have a valid judgment. They can keep levying your bank account until the account is paid in full. In the meantime, all of your other checks will bounce and you will have another mess. They can also go after your wages. They can do both at the same time. If they levy your bank account or garnish your wages after judgment, they have to do it through the courts (and they don't have to give you notice on bank levies in many states). Once that happens, it will be public record and it will be entered on your credit report as well.

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