02-16-2008, 09:14 PM
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Originally Posted by concord-07
I have heard that wage garnishment in NC is illegal for personal debt?
I moved to NC in September and was sued by a former landlord in Missouri for past due rent after I moved here. I changed employers moving from Missouri to NC. My employer has branches located throughout NC and Missouri with the corporate headquarters in OHIO.
The landlord has issued a garnishment order. I have heard that the landlord is unable to collect via garnishment in NC unless they issue the garnishment to the employer I worked for in Missouri AND I still work for them. Is this correct?
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There is no relationship between your employer and your landlord, is there? To assert that you are protected from garnishment because you simply changed jobs doesn't make too much sense to the casual observer---if that were the case, everyone who wanted to avoid garnishment could simply change jobs and * poof * Debt Be Gone.
That being said, I haven't personally had any experience with nor have I heard of a landlord garnishing wages---where I live, they simply file a summons and complaint at magistrates court (i.e. civil suit ). But if you say your landlord has already done this, it is probably due to the long distance factor since you moved so far away. I would also presume it is quite an appreciable amount of money to go to all that trouble and legal red tape to garnish your wages in another state.
Garnishing wages happens all the time----I don't understand how it makes sense to say ( in essence) you are free from repaying this debt (i.e. garnishment) because you simply changed jobs ! Where is the correlation between the two?
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