Bad Vibes.
Posted By Cliff Tuttle | June 8, 2010
No. 453
An Allegheny County resident posted a question on “AVVO Answers” on whether a bill collector could garnish wages after judgment in Pennsylvania.
The first lawyer to answer the question, from Georgia, got it completely wrong. She said “yes.” In Pennsylvania, with a few exceptions, there is no wage garnishment for civil judgments.
The second lawyer, a Pennsylvania lawyer, corrected her rather rudely, which may have accounted for the thumbs down evaluation by the original questioner.
The third lawyer, a New Yorker, gave a rather lengthy discussion of the federal statutory protection of debtors in garnishment proceedings. This was off point, since Pennsylvania doesn’t generally permit garnishment.
Then I came along. It struck me that none of the prior answers mentioned that the debt collector had threatened garnishment when there was no legal right. This was a clear violation of federal law, as discussed in my recent post on the Jurman case.
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