--- title: Title 18, Chapter 4. Garnishment Proceedings collection: code id: code:chapter:18-4 canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/title/18/chapter/4 md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4.md date: 2025 status: active corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68 license: CC0-1.0 publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice. up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/18.md previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-3.md next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-5.md index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md heading: GARNISHMENT PROCEEDINGS title_heading: DEBTOR AND CREDITOR section_count: 57 full_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4.md?full=1 --- # Title 18, Chapter 4. Garnishment Proceedings Title 18. Debtor and Creditor 57 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue). - 18-4-1, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-1.md - 18-4-2, Uniform procedures for garnishment; entitlement to procedures; application of the Civil Practice Act; amendment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-2.md - 18-4-3, Affidavit and requirements; summons of garnishment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-3.md - 18-4-4, Process of garnishment; period of garnishment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-4.md - 18-4-5, Maximum part of disposable earnings subject to garnishment; adverse employment action prohibited, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-5.md - 18-4-6, Exemption from garnishment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-6.md - 18-4-7, Required information on summons of garnishment or attachment thereto; form usage; failure to use correct form, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-7.md - 18-4-8, Required documents and service thereof, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-8.md - 18-4-9, Periodic summonses; original filing date limiting extension, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-9.md - 18-4-10, Responses by garnishee; judgment by default, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-10.md - 18-4-11, Garnishee answer; property located in area with restricted access; physical filings allowed, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-11.md - 18-4-12, Entity as garnishee, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-12.md - 18-4-13, Service of garnishee’s answer, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-13.md - 18-4-14, Recovery of reasonable expenses; recovery of actual expenses; refunds, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-14.md - 18-4-15, Parties to garnishment; basis for exemption; form; challenge to garnishment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-15.md - 18-4-16, Plaintiff filing traverse, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-16.md - 18-4-17, Third-party claimants, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-17.md - 18-4-18, Priority of conflicting claims to money or property, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-18.md - 18-4-19, Order of trial; introduction of evidence; expenses, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-19.md - 18-4-20, Failure to file claim or traverse in timely manner, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-20.md - 18-4-21, Failure of garnishee to file answer; default, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-21.md - 18-4-22, Financial institution as garnishee; failure to answer, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-22.md - 18-4-23, Grounds for relief from liability, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-23.md - 18-4-24, Modification of default judgments; burden of proof, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-24.md - 18-4-25, Release of summons of garnishment; release of garnishment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-25.md - 18-4-26, Local government organization and employees subject to garnishment; procedure, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-26.md - 18-4-40, Right to continuing garnishment process; applicable provisions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-40.md - 18-4-41, Affidavit of continuing garnishment; summons; notice of exemptions; form, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-41.md - 18-4-42, Filing and contents of summons of continuing garnishment; filing of subsequent answers, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-42.md - 18-4-43, Default judgment against garnishee in continuing garnishment; relief from default, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-43.md - 18-4-50, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-50.md - 18-4-51, Continuing garnishment of support, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-51.md - 18-4-52, Affidavit of continuing garnishment for support; service, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-52.md - 18-4-53, Summons of continuing garnishment for support; maximum disposable income subject to garnishment; retirement funds not exempted, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-53.md - 18-4-54, Application of money paid into court; additional garnishee answers; termination, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-54.md - 18-4-55, Termination of continuing garnishment for support; garnishee’s reliance upon information in affidavit, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-55.md - 18-4-70, Required use of forms, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-70.md - 18-4-71, Affidavit of garnishment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-71.md - 18-4-72, Affidavit of continuing garnishment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-72.md - 18-4-73, Affidavit of continuing garnishment for support, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-73.md - 18-4-74, Summons of garnishment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-74.md - 18-4-75, Attachment for summons of garnishment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-75.md - 18-4-76, Summons of garnishment on financial institution, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-76.md - 18-4-77, Attachment for summons of garnishment on a financial institution, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-77.md - 18-4-78, Summons of continuing garnishment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-78.md - 18-4-79, Attachment for summons of continuing garnishment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-79.md - 18-4-80, Summons of continuing garnishment for support, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-80.md - 18-4-81, Attachment for summons of continuing garnishment for support, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-81.md - 18-4-82, Notice to defendant of right against garnishment of money, including wages, and other property, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-82.md - 18-4-83, Order for hearing on defendant’s claim, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-83.md - 18-4-84, Garnishee answer, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-84.md - 18-4-85, Financial institution garnishee answer, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-85.md - 18-4-86, Garnishee answer to continuing garnishment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-86.md - 18-4-87, Plaintiff’s traverse, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-87.md - 18-4-88, Third-party claim, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-88.md - 18-4-89, Release of garnishment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-89.md - 18-4-90, Modification of continuing garnishment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/18-4-90.md