Can a credit card company garnish my wages?
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) Some debt collectors, and even credit card companies, will try to bully you into making a payment by threatening to garnish your wages. Can they actually follow through on that threat? Yes, but not until they sue you, win, and have a judge decide to garnish your wages as the method of payment. (It’s illegal for debt collectors to threaten you with a lawsuit if they don’t intend to do so or if they can’t legally do it.) If you are served with legal documents about a lawsuit, it’s in your best interests to contact an attorney. Don’t ignore the lawsuit; that will only hurt you When you don’t show up to court, the plaintiff (whoever filed the lawsuit) can have a default judgment entered in his favor. This means you automatically owe whatever the creditor sued you for and the court decides how to get the mo
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}if(zs>0){zSB(3,3)}else{gEI(“spacer”).style.display=’none’;gEI(“sidebar”).style.display=’none’} Some debt collectors, and even credit card companies, will try to bully you into making a payment by threatening to garnish your wages. Can they actually follow through on that threat? Yes, but not until they sue you, win, and have a judge decide to garnish your wages as the method of payment. (It’s illegal for debt collectors to threaten you with a lawsuit if they don’t intend to do so or if they can’t legally do it.) If you are served with legal documents about a lawsuit, it’s in your best interests to contact an attorney. Don’t ignore the lawsuit; that will only hurt you When you don’t show up to court, the plaintiff (whoever filed the lawsuit) can have a default judgment entered in his favor. This means you automa
