{"id":1192,"date":"2013-09-18T22:24:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T22:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.busby-lee.com\/?page_id=1192"},"modified":"2019-12-17T19:10:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T19:10:03","slug":"texas-wage-garnishments","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.busby-lee.com\/texas-wage-garnishments\/","title":{"rendered":"Wage Garnishment In Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>There are two types of Garnishments in Texas<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Wage<\/li>\n<li>Bank Accounts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Wage Garnishment<\/h2>\n<p align=\"justify\">Wages are permitted to be garnished in Texas for child support and spousal support only. \u00a0Federal law allows debtors&#8217; wages to be garnished for IRS debt and student loans, which overrules State Law. \u00a0Many times wage garnishment is threatened by the creditors against the Texas residents in the hopes of collecting payment. \u00a0Texas and Federal law does not allow a creditor to threaten with a collection method that they are not authorized by the court as a legal collection method. If you are threatened with garnishment, you should save your documentation so that you may bring suit later against the creditor. \u00a0Foreign judgments for which home state judgment permits wage garnishment, is the most common form of wrongful wage garnishment in the state. If the debtor moves to Texas and \u00a0the former state of residence of the debtor allows garnishment, then \u00a0a writ of Garnishment is cut and the debtor\u2019s employer is served. \u00a0If the debtor\u2019s employer crosses state lines, i.e., they work for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walmart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Walmart<\/a> or the Postal Service, then the employer will typically honor the wage garnishment. \u00a0If we can prove that the creditor knew that the residency haschanged to Texas, then there is a possibility that a cause of action could be made against the garnishing creditor. \u00a0Otherwise, a demand letter is what is first required and most of the creditors will release the garnishment once they get proper notice of the change in residence. \u00a0 If there is no release, then you should file a suit.<\/p>\n<h2>Bank Garnishment<\/h2>\n<p align=\"justify\">In order to garnish bank accounts or property in Texas, a court must issue a Writ of Garnishment. This can only be done after there is a valid, and subsisting judgment issued by a court. A Writ of Garnishment is obtained by filing an Application for Writ of Garnishment with a court of appropriate jurisdiction supported by a sworn affidavit stating that, \u201cwithin the plaintiff\u2019s knowledge, the defendant does not possess property in Texas subject to execution sufficient to satisfy the judgment.\u201d \u00a0Under the Texas state law, cash is non-exempted. \u00a0Exempt property is that property which your creditors cannot take from you to satisfy debt or a judgment. All of your money in a financial Institution, except in the form of IRA or social security, can be seized. \u00a0If this happens, typically the only way to get it back is to file a bankruptcy and use Federal wild card 522 (d) 5 to exempt the asset.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two types of Garnishments in Texas Wage Bank Accounts Wage Garnishment Wages are permitted to be garnished in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wage Garnishment In Texas - Houston Divorce Lawyer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The ability of creditors to garnish wages in Texas is limited. 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