Sentence examples for garnishee from inspiring English sources

Fanny laughed delightedly, adding it to the names she had already begun calling Constance: Felicia, as in "Felicia, Columbia House is gonna garnishee your wages!," or Ray ("I got bad news about that rubber, Ray"), and now Shauntrelle.

The judgment, which can be enforced by city marshals and the city sheriff, empowers the city to garnishee wages or seize assets to satisfy the debt.

Employers who pay below the minimum wage, fail to pay overtime or unfairly garnishee wages are especially rampant in restaurant, retail and construction businesses where illegal immigrants make up much of the work force, according to a report this year by the National Employment Law Project.

The law also lets the city garnishee all of the affected couple's monthly income that exceeds $2,103.

Papers filed for the arraignment also elaborated on prosecutors' theory that Mr. McDermott went into a rage because Edgewater was planning to garnishee his wages to help pay income taxes he owed.

Under federal law, inmates working for the private sector would have to be paid minimum wage, although the department could garnishee about 20percentt of their paychecks for room and board.

The latter prevents creditors from garnisheeing the wages of any head of household; Simpson, as the father of two children, counts as a head of household.

The I.R.S. has a few ways of collecting back taxes: garnisheeing wages, for example, or putting tax liens on property.

At least it's kept the government from garnisheeing my wages, what little they are.

He said he gets $72,000 or $73,000 in "take home" pay a year from the National Action Network, money that Mr. Pagones's lawyers are garnisheeing at a rate of 10percentt.

She has previously said that garnisheeing wages would be one option, but has declined to say whether it would be the preferred one.