Walk It Through: The Judgment
$35,000 in a home, $3,500 in a car, and retirement accounts kept free of the claim.
A card company wins a judgment against a cook and asks about the cook's home.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One judgment and one cook. Wage garnishment, the steps to claim exemptions, and tools of the trade in detail are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.