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Originally Posted by Christien
WHAT?! How could it be illegal? Or rather why? It only makes sense - someone owes you money, you go to court, win, and the judge gives you the right to garnish their wages. Is it a consumer protection thing? grrrr....
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In some states only the gov't is able to legally garnish your wages.
I don't have any kind of list handy though. Not even sure how many states it is nowadays, but it used to be quite a few that did not allow garnishing of wages.
The reason is to protect poor people from having their lives totally destroyed by collections efforts.