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Sb 255 - Garnishment Proceedings, Amy Bement, Kianna Hawkins, Elizabeth Wedegis

Georgia State University Law Review

The Act reorganizes and modernizes Georgia’s garnishment code by requiring notice of garnishment exemptions to debtors, providing a process for the resolution of exemption claims, limiting the garnishment period for financial accounts to twenty four hours, requiring service of garnishment summons to be performed upon a registered agent of a corporation, and mandating the use of the forms provided in the Act.