Garnishment Relief Attorney in Ft. Lauderdale
Finding out about Garnishment Relief
Wage garnishment can rob you of your chance to live a decent life and create real financial hardships. Under the law a creditor or a governmental agency can come after your wages and seize your earnings before you even see them. Whether or not you can maintain even a basic standard of living is not their concern, just getting their money. Unfortunately this is not a one-time event but can drag on for years. One of the jobs of a qualified Fort Lauderdale personal bankruptcy lawyer is to help individuals find relief from burdensome wage garnishment.
Understanding Wage Garnishment
There could be a number of ways in which your paycheck could be subject to garnishment but the most common are:
- Child Support Payments
- Creditor Collections
- Tax Agency Collections
Child support garnishments typically take place when court ordered support has not been paid on time or in full. These can be quite difficult to work with as an individual as it quite normally requires working with the family courts and obtaining a modification of support. This is a complex legal action and must be done according to the book as the law is geared to favor the recipient of support not the payee.
Creditor garnishments rarely come as a surprise. It takes a full legal process to get the right to garnish and a creditor must bring suit to do so. The law restricts the amount that can be taken from a check to 25% and the courts will determine the amount allowed.
Tax agencies are not so bound by a percentage and can be ruthless in taking sizeable amounts of your paycheck, leaving you little if anything to live on.
The McCue Law Firm has long worked to alleviate the burden of wage garnishment on its clients. There are definitely effective actions that can be done to either stop garnishment or to modify the amount being taken.
Don't feel that nothing can be done and give in.
Contact a Fort Lauderdale Garnishment Relief Attorney
today to find out what can be done.