Georgia Code
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 18-4-2. Uniform Procedures for Garnishment; Entitlement to Procedures; Application of the Civil Practice Act; Amendment

History. Code 1981, § 18-4-2 , enacted by Ga. L. 2016, p. 8, § 1/SB 255; Ga. L. 2020, p. 691, § 2/SB 443.
The 2020 amendment, effective January 1, 2021, added “in the state courts and superior courts of this state” at the end of subsection (c) and added “; however, no person or entity not named as garnishee in the original affidavit of garnishment filed in an action may be added as a garnishee by any amendment in such action absent a showing that any such amendment is done to correct or clarify the identity of an originally named garnishee” at the end of subsection (d).

Structure Georgia Code

Georgia Code

Title 18 - Debtor and Creditor

Chapter 4 - Garnishment Proceedings

Article 1 - General Provisions

§ 18-4-1. Definitions

§ 18-4-2. Uniform Procedures for Garnishment; Entitlement to Procedures; Application of the Civil Practice Act; Amendment

§ 18-4-3. Affidavit and Requirements; Summons of Garnishment

§ 18-4-4. Process of Garnishment; Period of Garnishment

§ 18-4-5. Maximum Part of Disposable Earnings Subject to Garnishment; Adverse Employment Action Prohibited

§ 18-4-6. Exemption From Garnishment

§ 18-4-7. Required Information on Summons of Garnishment or Attachment Thereto; Form Usage; Failure to Use Correct Form

§ 18-4-8. Required Documents and Service Thereof

§ 18-4-9. Periodic Summonses; Original Filing Date Limiting Extension

§ 18-4-10. Responses by Garnishee; Judgment by Default

§ 18-4-11. Garnishee Answer; Property Located in Area With Restricted Access; Physical Filings Allowed

§ 18-4-12. Entity as Garnishee

§ 18-4-13. Service of Garnishee’s Answer

§ 18-4-14. Recovery of Reasonable Expenses; Recovery of Actual Expenses; Refunds

§ 18-4-15. Parties to Garnishment; Basis for Exemption; Form; Challenge to Garnishment

§ 18-4-16. Plaintiff Filing Traverse

§ 18-4-17. Third-Party Claimants

§ 18-4-18. Priority of Conflicting Claims to Money or Property

§ 18-4-19. Order of Trial; Introduction of Evidence; Expenses

§ 18-4-20. Failure to File Claim or Traverse in Timely Manner

§ 18-4-21. Failure of Garnishee to File Answer; Default

§ 18-4-22. Financial Institution as Garnishee; Failure to Answer

§ 18-4-23. Grounds for Relief From Liability

§ 18-4-24. Modification of Default Judgments; Burden of Proof

§ 18-4-25. Release of Summons of Garnishment; Release of Garnishment

§ 18-4-26. Local Government Organization and Employees Subject to Garnishment; Procedure