Walk It Through: The Judgment
Wages exempt in the employer's hands, $300 of anything, and retirement money.
A card company wins a judgment against a cook and moves to garnish the cook's pay.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One judgment and one cook. Support judgments, bankruptcy, and how to claim an exemption 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.