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Title 18. DEBTOR AND CREDITOR · Chapter 4. GARNISHMENT PROCEEDINGS · Article 4. GARNISHMENT FORMS

18-4-89. Release of garnishment.

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

  1. “IN THE COURT OF COUNTY

  2. STATE OF GEORGIA

  3. )

  4. )

  5. Plaintiff )

  6. )

  7. v. ) Civil Action File No.

  8. )

  9. )

  10. Defendant )

  11. )

  12. )

  13. Garnishee )

  14. RELEASE OF GARNISHMENT

  15. To:

  16. Garnishee

  17. This is to notify you that you have been released from filing a Garnishee Answer to any and all Summons of Garnishment or Summons of Continuing Garnishment pending as of this date in the above-styled case.

  18. This release authorizes you to pay or deliver to the Defendant in garnishment any money or other property in your possession belonging to the Defendant.

  19. This release does not terminate the garnishment proceedings, nor does this release relieve you of any obligation placed on you by the service of a Summons of Garnishment subsequent to this date.

  20. This day of , 20 .

  21. Clerk, Court of County CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

  22. This is to certify that I have this day served the Plaintiff or Plaintiff’s Attorney, the Defendant, and the Garnishee in the foregoing matter with a copy of this pleading by depositing it in the United States Mail in a properly addressed envelope with adequate postage thereon.

  23. This day of , 20 .

  24. Deputy Clerk of Court”

Reading note: the printed indentation of one or more subsections was ambiguous, so their nesting is the extractor's best reading. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

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, § 18-4-89, 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, pages 278 to 279; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 eddc877da9f2.