I currently reside in Georgia, there is a wage garnishment assigned to my wages. My job has been taking the assigned amt. from my payroll check. However, the payroll deductions stopped in the month of November 2008. There has been no more activity since then. I've recently contacted the courthouse in my county and the payroll dept. To check the status of the amount owed, I was told the amount is under 1000 dollars, however, the garnishment has expired with the courts. Therefore, the plaintiffs attorney would have to submit another "Motion to Release Garnishment Funds". Moreover, I 've contacted the Plaintiff's attorney who informed me that he no longer represents the Plaintiff and never wishes to hear nor see her again. I was really shocked with this information, futhermore, I explained to him I need to pay the remaining balance since he is still showing at the courts as her attorney. I don't know how to contact the plaintiff to pay the balance. What should I do?
What you need to do is let her get another attorney its her victory.put the money in savings and if and when she gets an attorney you can start paying again.Your in good standing with the court.I would not contact her.That's my opinion so you can take it for what its worth.
Dumb Bob read the date on this and knows that it is older material. Nevertheless, one consideration if one decides to wait on paying off the judgment is that there might be an interest rate that is increasing the judgment. If the money to pay off the judgment is put into a savings account at .25% and the judgment is increasing at 18%, that's a bad situation. Another possible problem, if the judgment is down at only $1000, can the person holding it justify getting a lawyer? And if they can, will they stick those costs onto the judgment as well? The rules depend on state law and neither seems that good. If the person just sits on this judgment, it will likely become rather large in 10 or 15 years. Dumb Bob wonders if there isn't some way to directly pay the court.
