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Subchapter I - Attachment and Garnishment Generally
§ 16–501. Attachment before judgment; affidavit and bond - (a) This section applies to any civil action in the...
§ 16–502. Service of notice; publication - (a) A writ issued pursuant to section 16-501 shall require...
§ 16–503. Attachment for debts not due - A creditor may maintain an action and have an attachment...
§ 16–504. Additional attachments - Upon the application of the plaintiff, his agent, or attorney,...
§ 16–505. Sufficiency of plaintiff’s bond - The defendant or any other person interested in the proceedings...
§ 16–506. Traversing affidavits; quashing writ of attachment; trial of issues - If the defendant files affidavits traversing the affidavits filed by...
§ 16–507. Property subject to attachment; liens; priorities - (a) An attachment may be levied on the lands and...
§ 16–508. Attachment of real property - An attachment is sufficiently levied on the lands and tenements...
§ 16–509. Attachment of personal property; undertaking by defendant or person in possession - (a) An attachment shall be levied upon personal chattels by...
§ 16–510. Release of property or credits from attachment; sufficiency of undertaking - (a) Either the defendant or the person in whose possession...
§ 16–511. Attachment of credits or partnership interest; retention of property or credits by garnishee - (a) An attachment shall be levied upon credits of the...
§ 16–512. Attachment and levy upon wages of nonresident - An attachment issued under section 16-501 solely on the ground...
§ 16–513. Advance payment of wages to avoid attachment or garnishment - It is unlawful for an employer to pay salary or...
§ 16–514. Credits or property held for two or more persons or in representative capacity - When a writ of attachment is served on a garnishee,...
§ 16–515. Attachment of judgments and money or property in hands of marshal - (a) An attachment may be levied upon debts due to...
§ 16–516. Attachment of money or property in hands of executor or administrator - An attachment may be levied upon money or property of...
§ 16–517. Attachment of other property in replevin action - Where the action is to replevy specific personal property and...
§ 16–518. Preservation of property; sale; receiver - The court may make all orders necessary for the preservation...
§ 16–519. Defenses by garnishee - A garnishee in an attachment proceeding may make any defense...
§ 16–520. Defending against the attachment; trial of issues - A defendant, any garnishee, party to a forthcoming undertaking, or...
§ 16–521. Interrogatories to garnishee; oral examination - (a) In any case in which a writ of attachment...
§ 16–522. Traverse of garnishee’s answers; trial of issue; costs and attorney’s fee - If any garnishee answers to interrogatories that he does not...
§ 16–523. Claims to attached property - Any person may file his motion and affidavit in the...
§ 16–524. Judgment generally; condemnation of attached property - (a) If the defendant in the action has been served...
§ 16–525. Condemnation and sale of property; proceeds of sale under interlocutory order - In any form of action, where specific property has been...
§ 16–526. Judgment against garnishee - (a) When a garnishee has admitted credits in his hands,...
§ 16–527. Judgment in case of undertaking for retention of property or credits - (a) When property or credits attached are released upon an...
§ 16–528. Judgment protects garnishee - A judgment of condemnation against a garnishee, and execution thereon,...
§ 16–529. Attachment in actions for fraudulent conveyances - (a) Where the ground upon which an attachment is applied...
§ 16–530. Time for trial of issues - All issues raised by answers to the attachment, in any...
§ 16–531. Attachment dockets; index of attachments - The clerk of the court shall keep an attachment docket,...
§ 16–532. Other remedies of judgment creditor - Nothing herein contained deprives a judgment creditor of the right...
§ 16–533. Attachment proceedings in Superior Court - The provisions of this Code relating to attachments apply to...
Subchapter II - Attachment and Garnishment After Judgment in Aid of Execution
§ 16–541. Definition and applicability - As used in this subchapter, “judgment” includes an unconditional decree...
§ 16–542. Issuance of attachment after judgment; costs - An attachment may be issued upon a judgment either before...
§ 16–543. Revival of judgment unnecessary - Attachment may be issued at any time during the life...
§ 16–544. Property subject to attachment - An attachment may be levied upon the judgment debtor’s goods,...
§ 16–545. Multiple attachments against same judgment debtor - Only one attachment upon goods, chattels, and credits of a...
§ 16–546. Attachments of credits - An attachment shall be levied upon credits of the defendant,...
§ 16–547. Retention of property or credits by garnishee - Where the property or credits attached or sought to be...
§ 16–548. Attachment of judgments and money or property in hands of marshal - (a) An attachment may be levied upon debts due to...
§ 16–549. Attachment of money or property in hands of executor or administrator - An attachment may be levied upon money or property of...
§ 16–550. Preservation of property; sale - The court may make all orders necessary for the preservation...
§ 16–551. Defending against the attachment; trial of issues - A garnishee or stranger to the action who may make...
§ 16–552. Interrogatories to garnishee; oral examination - (a) In any case in which a writ of attachment...
§ 16–553. Traverse of garnishee’s answers; trial of issue; costs and attorney’s fee - If a garnishee answers to interrogatories that he does not...
§ 16–554. Claims to attached property - Any person may file his motion and affidavit in the...
§ 16–555. Condemnation and sale of property; proceeds of sale under interlocutory order - Where the attachment has been levied upon specific property, on...
§ 16–556. Judgment against garnishee - (a) Subject to the provisions of subchapter III of this...
Subchapter III - Attachment and Garnishment of Wages, etc
§ 16–571. Definitions - For purposes of this subchapter — (1) The term “wages”...
§ 16–571.01. Enforcement of support orders by attachment or garnishment - Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, a notice or...
§ 16–572. Attachment of wages; percentage limitations; priority of attachments - Notwithstanding any other provision of subchapter II of this chapter:...
§ 16–572.01. Motion to exempt wages from garnishment - (a) Notwithstanding § 16-572, a judgment debtor may seek to...
§ 16–572.02. Notice to judgment debtor regarding wage garnishment - On the date that the judgment creditor serves a writ...
§ 16–573. Employer’s duty to withhold and make payments; percentage - (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section,...
§ 16–574. Judgment creditor to file receipts, in court, of amount collected - (a) The judgment creditor shall: (1) file with the clerk...
§ 16–575. Judgment against employer-garnishee for failure to pay percentages - If the employer-garnishee fails to pay to the judgment creditor...
§ 16–576. Lapse of attachment upon resignation or dismissal of employee - If a judgment debtor resigns or is dismissed from his...
§ 16–577. Applicability of per centum limitations to judgment for support - The per centum limitations prescribed by section 16-572 do not...
§ 16–578. Superior Court judgments; lapse; validity - An attachment issued by the Superior Court of the District...
§ 16–579. Payments by employer-garnishee where employee has no salary or salary inadequate for services rendered - Where the judgment debtor claims or is proved to be...
§ 16–580. Quashing attachment where judgment obtained to hinder just claims - Where an attachment levied under this subchapter is based upon...
§ 16–581. Rules of procedure - The judges of the Superior Court of the District of...
§ 16–582. Attachments to which this subchapter is applicable - This subchapter applies only with respect to attachments upon wages,...
§ 16–583. No garnishment before judgment - (a) Except as otherwise provided in the District of Columbia...
§ 16–584. No discharge from employment for garnishment - No employer shall discharge an employee for the reason that...