2015 Iowa Code
TITLE XV - JUDICIAL BRANCH AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURES
SUBTITLE 5 - SPECIAL ACTIONS
CHAPTER 642 - GARNISHMENT
Section 642.22 - Validity of garnishment notice — duty to monitor account.


1.  A notice of garnishment served upon a garnishee is effective without serving another notice until the earliest of the following:

a.  The annual maximum permitted to be garnished under section 642.21 has been withheld.

b.  The writ of execution expires.

c.  The judgment is satisfied.

d.  The garnishment is released by the sheriff at the request of the plaintiff or the plaintiff’s attorney.

2.  A supervised financial organization, as defined in section 537.1301, subsection 45, which is garnished for an account of a defendant, after paying the sheriff any amounts then in the account, shall monitor the account for any additional amounts at least monthly while the garnishment notice is effective.

3.  Expiration of the execution does not affect a garnishee’s duties and liabilities respecting property already withheld pursuant to the garnishment.
1984 Acts, ch 1239, §12; 1985 Acts, ch 93, §1; 1986 Acts, ch 1238, §26; 1987 Acts, ch 98, §7; 2001 Acts, ch 92, §2

Referred to in 627.6
Section not amended; internal reference change applied

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