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Noun
/ˌgärniˈSHē/,
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garnishees, plural;
  1. A third party who is served notice by a court to surrender money in settlement of a debt or claim
    • - a garnishee order
  1. a wage earner who is served with a garnishment
  2. take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support; "His employer garnished his wages in order to pay his debt"
  3. A garnishment is a means of collecting a monetary judgment against a defendant by ordering a third party (the garnishee) to pay money, otherwise owed to the defendant, directly to the plaintiff. ...
  4. the person whose money is garnished; the act of attaching the property sought to be secured
  5. The seizure of property, monies, earnings, receivables belonging to a debtor that are in the hands of a third party.
  6. A person who owes a debt to a judgment debtor, or a person other than the judgment debtor who has property in his/her possession or custody in which a judgment debtor has an interest
  7. The legally divert part or whole of someone’s money or property to someone else, eg: for Child Support Payment.
  8. The employer or other asset holder against whom the process of garnishment is issued
  9. An employer that receives an order requiring withholding from an employee’s wages to satisfy a debt.  A garnishee can also be a debtor against whom a creditor has brought a process of garnishment.
  10. This is an automatic deduction arranged without a person's consent from their income or bank account due to non payment of a debt. ...
  11. A debtor who is required, by order of the Court, to pay his/her debt, not to his/her immediate creditor, but a person who has obtained final judgment against the creditor.
  12. A legal term that means to take away something you own--such as property or part of your salary--and use it to pay the debt you owe.
  13. A third party who has been warned that money or property in his or her control but due or belonging to a defendant has been attached. (ie. Banks, employers)
  14. A third party who owes money to a debtor, but must instead pay it to the court or a government agency, to the benefit of a creditor.
  15. A legal procedure that allows for the seizure of money owing to a person who has not paid a court-ordered debt. The Court may order the debtor's bank, employer, or anyone else who may owe money to the debtor, to pay the money into court to help pay the debt.
  16. person who holds money or property belonging to a debtor and subject to an attachment.
  17. Employer, bank, insurance company or other party upon whom a judgment creditor places a Writ of Garnishment, because that entity holds assets due the original debtor. ...
  18. Order A court order taken out by a creditor on a person's employer or banker for the deduction of funds from his wages or bank account to repay a debt.
  19. The seizing of a person's property, credit or salary, on the basis of a law which allows it, and for the purposes of paying off a debt. The person who possesses the assets of the debtor and is the subject of the seizure is called a "garnishee". ...
  20. one in whose hands money or goods have been attached
  21. A court-ordered settlement that allows a lender to take monies owed directly from a borrower's paycheck.
  22. n. a person or entity, quite often a bank or employer, which receives a court order not to release funds held for or owed to a customer or employee, pending further order of the court.