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Title 18. DEBTOR AND CREDITOR · Chapter 4. GARNISHMENT PROCEEDINGS · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

18-4-18. Priority of conflicting claims to money or property.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. When money or other property in court is subject to a third-party claim or to more than one garnishment case, the party with the oldest entered judgment shall have priority to such money or other property and any interested party to any one of the garnishment cases may make a motion to the court where such money or other property has been deposited for the distribution of such money or other property. Each party of interest in each case and the clerk of court shall be served with a copy of the motion. Upon hearing the motion, the court shall enter an order directing that the clerk be paid the court cost of each garnishment proceeding first, and all remaining money or other property shall be distributed in accordance with the laws governing the relative priority of claims, judgments, and liens.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 18-4-18, enacted by Ga. L. 2016, p. 8, § 1/SB 255.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t18-t19-(v16)-2022-pdf.pdf, Volume V16, 2022 edition, page 212; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 eddc877da9f2.