Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

18-4-22. Financial institution as garnishee; failure to answer.

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When a garnishee is a financial institution and fails or refuses to file a garnishee answer by the fifteenth day after the date of service of the summons of garnishment, such garnishee shall automatically be in default. The default may be opened as a matter of right by the filing of a garnishee answer within 15 days of the day of default and payment of costs. If the case is still in default after the expiration of the period of 15 days, judgment by default may be entered at any time thereafter against such garnishee for the amount remaining due on the judgment obtained against the defendant as shown in the plaintiff’s affidavit of garnishment.

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.

Code 1981, § 18-4-22, enacted by Ga. L. 2016, p. 8, § 1/SB 255.

For note discussing default by the garnishee, see 12 Ga. L. Rev. 814 (1978).

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