Title 16, Practice, Procedure, And Courts

Upon the return of the attachment, the plaintiff shall file a written declaration or statement against the boat or vessel by its name or description or against the owner or owners, as the case may be. The declaration or statement shall briefly recite the nature of the demand, whe…

The attachment shall proceed in like manner in all other respects, and like judgment and execution shall be had, as in other cases of attachment.

All engineers, pilots, mariners, boatmen, and others employed in any capacity in or about the boat or vessel who may be entitled to arrearages of wages in consequence of their services may proceed to collect the wages under the provisions of §§ 16-110-301 and 16-110-303 — 16-110-…

If the owner, master, supercargo, or consignee of any such boat or vessel seized by attachment shall, at any time before judgment, give bond to the plaintiff with security to be approved by the clerk of the circuit court or by the judge, as the case may be, in double the amount o…

(a) (1) In all cases where any plaintiff may begin an action in any court of record, or before any justice of the peace, or may have obtained a judgment before any of the courts, and the plaintiff shall have reason to believe that any other person is indebted to the defendant or …

(a) (1) Upon application for a writ of garnishment by any qualified judgment creditor, the clerk of the court shall attach to the writ of garnishment the following “Notice to Defendant”:“NOTICE TO DEFENDANT OF YOUR RIGHT TO KEEP WAGES, MONEY, AND OTHER PROPERTY FROM BEING GARNISH…

The plaintiff shall, on the day on which he or she sues out his writ of garnishment, prepare and file all the allegations and interrogatories, in writing, with the clerk or justice issuing the writ upon which he or she may be desirous of obtaining the answer of the garnishee touc…

The garnishee shall, on the return day named in the writ, exhibit and file, under his or her oath, full, direct, and true answers to all such allegations and interrogatories as may have been exhibited against him or her by the plaintiff.

(a) If the garnishee files his or her answer to the interrogatories exhibited and the plaintiff deems the answers untrue or insufficient, he or she may deny the answer and cause his or her denial to be entered on the record. (b) The court or justice, if neither party requires a j…

(a) If any garnishee that is a bank, savings bank, or trust company domiciled in this state, after having been served with a writ of garnishment ten (10) days before the return day thereof, shall neglect to answer on or before the return day the writ or any interrogatories which …

(a) If any garnishee, after having been duly served with a writ of garnishment, shall neglect or refuse to answer the interrogatories exhibited to him or her, on or before thirty (30) days after service of the writ, the court, upon motion of the plaintiff, may issue a notice to t…

(a) (1) Whenever a garnishment is issued in any action before judgment, the defendant may have the garnishment discharged and all funds or property of his or hers in the hands of the garnishee released therefrom by filing with the clerk of the court a bond in double the amount fo…

(a) If on the return day of any writ of garnishment the garnishee shall surrender to the plaintiff all the goods and chattels, moneys, credits, and effects which may be in his or her hands or possession belonging to the defendant, he or she shall be discharged with costs. (b) The…

(a) If the issue is found for the garnishee, he or she shall be discharged without further proceedings. (b) However, if the issue is found for the plaintiff, judgment shall be entered for the amount due from the garnishee to the defendant in the original judgment, or so much ther…

In all cases where judgment shall be rendered against any garnishee on an answer to interrogatories filed, the judgment shall have the effect to release the garnishee from all responsibility in relation to the goods and chattels, moneys, credits, and effects for which the judgmen…

Writs of garnishment may be issued from the circuit court of one (1) county to any other county in the state.

(a) (1) Any indebtedness, goods and chattels, moneys, credits, or effects, except for refunds for overpayment of Arkansas state income tax belonging to a defendant in a civil action and in the hands or possession of the State of Arkansas, or any subdivision thereof, institution, …

(a) No garnishment shall be issued by any court in any cause where the sum demanded is two hundred dollars ($200) or less, and where the property sought to be reached is wages due to a defendant by any railroad corporation, until after judgment has been recovered by the plaintiff…

(a) Upon the garnishment of salaries, wages, or other compensation due from the employer garnishee, the employer garnishee shall hold, to the extent of the amount due upon the judgment and costs, subject to the order of the court, any nonexempt wages due or which subsequently bec…

In any garnishment of salaries, wages, or other compensation due from the employer garnishee, the plaintiff shall include the following notice to the employer garnishee:“NOTICE TO EMPLOYER GARNISHEE”The amount of wages available for withholding for this judgment and costs is subj…

(a) A payor may withhold up to two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per pay period in addition to any court-ordered income withholding amount for the administrative cost incurred in each withholding. (b) The income withholding provisions of this section shall not apply to unemploy…