Non Exempt Earnings Statement

Regular creditors cannot garnish your wages without first suing you in court and obtaining a money judgment. That means that if you owe money to a credit card company, doctor, dentist, furniture company, or the like, you don't have to worry about garnishment unless those creditors sue you in court.

The journal entry will be Debit Gross Wages, and Credit "Child Support Liability account." When you write the check to pay the garnishment, on the Expenses tab, you list the Child Support Liability account.

Limits on Wage Garnishments 25% of the debtor's disposable earnings (what's left after mandatory deductions), or the amount by which the debtor's wages exceed 30 times the minimum wage, whichever is lower.

Your creditor can garnish your wages once they have obtained a money judgment against you and you fail to pay the balance. At that point, the creditor will request an order to garnish your wages from the court, and have it served on you and your employer.

Option 1: Don't allow a judgment to be entered against you. Option 2: Challenge the judgment. Option 3: Don't expose assets to garnishment. Option 4: Reduce the amount that is being garnished (wage garnishments only) Option 5: Settlement. Option 6: Bankruptcy.

If it's already started, you can try to challenge the judgment or negotiate with the creditor. But, they're in the driver's seat, and if they don't allow you to stop a garnishment by agreeing to make voluntary payments, you can't really force them to. You can, however, stop the garnishment by filing a bankruptcy case.

The winner of the case may collect by first sending a letter stating what is owed and trying to collect from the other party . If the other party refuses to pay there are of other tools that a person can use to collect such as: garnishment , executions on property , debtor's examinations, and recording judgments.