I recently had a non-resident client whose salary was garnished by a Florida court because his employer had an office in Florida and he had a judgment entered against him in Florida. We timely challenged the garnishment by filing a head of household claim of...
Garnishment
Judgments Against Defaulted Garnishees
I recently had a potential client contact me concerning the consequences of a garnishee's failure to answer a writ of garnishment. Florida law provides that a judgment creditor may serve an employer to garnish a debtor's wages as well as any other entity that may be...
Can a Judgment Creditor Garnish an Out-Of-State Bank Account?
A effective post-judgment garnishment tool for a judgment creditor is garnishment of a judgment debtor's bank account. However, what happens when the judgment debtor resides in another state but uses a national bank with a branch in Florida. Does the bank account...

