Wage Garnishments & Attachments

You may be able to protect some or all of your wages from garnishment with a state exemption.

Find out which creditors are allowed to get money directly from your paycheck -- called wage garnishment.

Learn about the similarities and differences between income withholding orders and wage garnishment.

Learn the basic procedures for challenging a wage garnishment.

If you provide economic support for your household, you may be able to protect more of your wages from garnishment than non-heads of household.

If a creditor is garnishing your wages, you may be able to stop the garnishment and even get some of your garnished wages back by filing bankruptcy.

Your wages can be garnished if you owe child support, alimony, student loans, or back taxes, or if a court judgment has been entered against you.

Find out if you can reduce or eliminate a wage garnishment if it leaves you unable to pay for food for you and your family.

A credit card companies can garnish your wages if it gets a judgment against you. Learn how to avoid this.

If you still owe money after the foreclosure of your home, can the lender garnish your wages to get the rest?

Wage garnishments and bank levies are different -- learn about them and which creditors are more likely to use each type of collection action.

If you owe taxes to the IRS, it can garnish your wages to collect. But there are payment options for you to avoid garnishment.

Many states protect your private disability income from creditors and federal law offers some protection too.