Are Form 843 Garnishment 2011-2023

Instructions and Help about Are Form 843 Garnishment

Music either this is Jonathan Ginsberg I'm a personal bankruptcy attorney here in the Atlanta area and today I'd like to talk to you about what you can do if you have a unexpected wage garnishment a wage garnishment emergency for lack of better terms and basically what's happened is that somebody has gotten a judgment against you and they've taken that judgment they've made it into a what's called a v fame they've gone to your employer and said withhold a percentage of this person's wages and the employer is required to withhold 25 percent of your disposable pay and send it in to the to the to the plaintiff to the judgment creditor if they don't do it by the way then the employer becomes responsible for the full balance so employers have a very very strong financial interest in complying with a wage garnishment now I can't tell you how many times people have told me over the years I had no idea first time I had heard about this wage garnishment a judgement was when my employer said I got this notice of continuing wage garnishment and what can I do well first of all tell you that again with wage garnishment the first thing that has to happen is there has to have been a judgment so if you ever got a document handed to you by a sheriff's deputy that's a lawsuit and you should always take action on that if somebody in your family got some papers from somebody in uniform that probably means you were sued check your credit report periodically to see that will also tell you an annual credit report.com is where you can get your credit reports for free that will also show you if you've been sued if...