Title 52, Title 52: Civil Actions

Sec. 52-361b. Notification of judgment debtor's rights. Claim for exemption or modification. (a) A property execution pursuant to section 52-356a to be levied on property of a judgment debtor who is a natural person shall be accompanied by a conspicuous notice in clear and simple…

Sec. 52-362. Income withholding and unemployment compensation for support. (a) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Dependent” means a spouse, former spouse or child entitled to payments under a support order, provided Support Enforcement Services of the Superior Court or the s…

Sec. 52-362a. Welfare support executions. Section 52-362a is repealed. (1969, P.A. 551, S. 1, 2; 1971, P.A. 195; P.A. 85-548, S. 11.)

Sec. 52-362b. Priority of voluntary wage deduction authorization for support over wage executions. A voluntary wage deduction authorization for payment of amounts due for support in public welfare cases shall have the same priority over executions issued under section 52-361a as …

Sec. 52-362c. Voluntary wage deduction authorization for support. A voluntary wage deduction authorization for payment of amounts due for support shall have the same force and effect as a wage withholding order issued under section 52-362 and all payments under such authorization…

Sec. 52-362d. Lien against property of obligor for unpaid child support. Securing, releasing or foreclosing lien. Notice of lien and opportunity for hearing. Information re unpaid support reported to participating consumer reporting agency. Offset for child support arrearage agai…

Sec. 52-362e. Withholding federal income tax refunds in amount equal to support arrearage. Procedures. Eligibility. Regulations. (a) Subject to the provisions of section 52-362h, whenever an order of the Superior Court or a family support magistrate for support of a child or chil…

Sec. 52-362f. Enforcement of child support orders by income withholding. (a) As used in this section, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Agency” means the Office of Child Support Services within the Department of Social Services of this state and, when the context requir…

Sec. 52-362g. Notice by IV-D agency for collection of current or past due child support payments. Any written notice sent by or on behalf of the IV-D agency for the purpose of collection of current or past due child support payments shall, if such notice contains possible sanctio…

Sec. 52-362h. Defense re withholding support arrearage from federal and state income tax refunds. For the purpose only of submission to the Internal Revenue Service for the withholding from federal income tax refunds or submission to the Commissioner of Administrative Services fo…

Sec. 52-362i. Court may require cash deposit of support to be held by Office of Child Support Services or Support Enforcement Services. If the court or family support magistrate finds that (1) an obligor is delinquent on payment of child support, and (2) future support payments a…

Sec. 52-362j. “Past-due support”, “overdue support”, defined. For the purposes of sections 52-362d, 52-362e, 52-362g, and 52-362h: (1) “Past-due support” means any one or a combination of the following: (A) Court-ordered current support or arrearage payments which have become due…

Sec. 52-363. Levy on machinery, implements and crops. Removal. Section 52-363 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8106; March, 1958, P.A. 27, S. 72; P.A. 83-581, S. 39, 40; P.A. 84-546, S. 127, 173.)

Sec. 52-364. Levy against partnership. No execution upon a judgment rendered against copartners shall be levied upon any other than the partnership property or the individual property of such defendants as are particularly named in the complaint. (1949 Rev., S. 8107.) Cited. 21 C…

Sec. 52-365. Demand on execution against voluntary association. Demand on execution, upon a judgment rendered against a voluntary association, may be made on its presiding officer, secretary or treasurer. (1949 Rev., S. 8108.) See Sec. 52-57 (e) re service of process against pres…

Secs. 52-366 and 52-367. Levy of execution against oyster-bed association. Levy on corporate stock. Sections 52-366 and 52-367 are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8109, 8110; 1959, P.A. 574, S. 6; P.A. 83-581, S. 39, 40; P.A. 84-546, S. 127, 173.)

Sec. 52-367a. Execution against debts due from financial institution. Judgment debtor other than individual. (a) As used in this section and section 52-367b, “financial institution” means any bank, savings bank, savings and loan association or credit union organized, chartered or…

Sec. 52-367b. Execution against debts due from financial institution. Individual as judgment debtor. (a) Exempt debts. Execution may be granted pursuant to this section against any debts due from any financial institution to a judgment debtor who is an individual, except to the e…

Sec. 52-367c. Execution against lottery and pari-mutuel winnings. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of the general statutes, on application of a judgment creditor or his attorney, stating that a judgment remains unsatisfied and the amount due thereon, and subject to the exp…

Secs. 52-368 to 52-380. Levy on: Interest of one railroad in property of another railroad; body execution; body for want of bail; real estate; real estate of voluntary association. Return and record of levy on real estate. Levy on: Equity in real and personal estate; lands in dif…

Sec. 52-380a. Judgment lien on real property. (a) A judgment lien, securing the unpaid amount of any money judgment, including interest and costs, may be placed on any real property by recording, in the town clerk's office in the town where the real property lies, a judgment lien…

Sec. 52-380b. (Formerly Sec. 49-54). Judgment lien on property of telephone or electric distribution company or association. Any property of any telephone or electric distribution company, or association engaged in distributing electricity by wires or similar conductors, attached…

Sec. 52-380c. (Formerly Sec. 49-40b). Judgment liens expired by limitation of time. Any judgment lien which has expired for failure to comply with the time limitations of section 52-380a is automatically extinguished and the continued existence of the lien unreleased of record in…

Sec. 52-380d. (Formerly Sec. 49-46a). Release of judgment lien on real or personal property. Form. (a) A judgment lien on real or personal property may be released by an instrument in writing signed by the lienholder or his attorney or by any personal representative who signed th…

Sec. 52-380e. Discharge of judgment lien on substitution of bond or lien on other property. When a lien is placed on any real or personal property pursuant to section 52-355a or 52-380a, the judgment debtor may apply to the court to discharge the lien on substitution of (1) a bon…

Sec. 52-380f. (Formerly Sec. 49-50). Discharge of judgment lien from property not needed to secure judgment. Any person interested, as a subsequent encumbrancer or otherwise, in any real or personal property covered by a judgment lien may apply to the court for discharge of the l…

Sec. 52-380g. Release of judgment lien on satisfaction of judgment. On satisfaction of a judgment, the judgment creditor shall release any judgment liens of record based thereon by sending a release sufficient under section 52-380d by first class mail, postage prepaid, to the jud…

Sec. 52-380h. (Formerly Sec. 49-47). Form of judgment lien foreclosure certificates. Certificates of foreclosure of judgment liens shall be, as far as possible, of the same form as is prescribed for certificates of foreclosure of mortgages. (1949 Rev., S. 7228; P.A. 79-602, S. 10…

Sec. 52-380i. (Formerly Sec. 49-48). Foreclosure of lien when plaintiff holds mortgage. Upon proceedings for the foreclosure of any judgment lien, when the judgment creditor holds a mortgage upon real estate in this state as security for the debt, or any part of it, that has gone…

Sec. 52-381. Liability of garnishee; scire facias. If judgment is rendered in favor of the plaintiff in any action by foreign attachment, all the effects in the hands of the garnishee at the time of the attachment, or debts then due from him to the defendant, and any debt, legacy…

Sec. 52-382. Levy on nonresident garnishee. In an action by foreign attachment in which the garnishee is described as a nonresident and service has been made upon his agent transacting business in his behalf in this state, the plaintiff, on taking out an execution, may direct the…

Sec. 52-383. Levy when garnishee has left the state. When the garnishee in any action of foreign attachment has removed from this state prior to the issuing of the execution in such action, so that no demand can be made of him in person by the officer serving the same, the clerk …

Sec. 52-384. Scire facias against garnishee who has left state. If, after demand made as provided in section 52-383, a writ of scire facias is issued against such garnishee, and he still remains without this state, service of such writ shall be made in such manner as the judge or…

Sec. 52-385. Scire facias founded on justice judgment. Section 52-385 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8129; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 204.)

Sec. 52-386. Stay of execution when debt is not payable. When it appears on the hearing of any scire facias, founded on a foreign attachment, that the debt due the principal is not yet payable, the court shall direct the execution to be stayed until the time the debt would have b…

Sec. 52-387. Scire facias; defense by assignee or claimant. When a scire facias is brought to recover a debt or effects taken by a foreign attachment, if any person or persons, either jointly or severally, claim such debt as assignee or assignees thereof, or such effects as owner…

Sec. 52-388. Commission to take disclosure of garnishee. The court before which any scire facias is pending may issue a commission to take the disclosure of the defendant on oath, when, on account of his living or being about to go out of the state, or being unable to travel thro…

Sec. 52-389. Attachment lien on debt due from solvent estate. When any debt due or which may become due from the estate of a deceased person which is settled as a solvent estate is attached, the lien created by such attachment shall not continue unless demand is made of the garni…

Sec. 52-390. Execution; demand for legacy or distributive share. When any legacy or distributive share due or which may become due from the estate of a deceased person is attached, the attachment shall not continue unless demand is made of the garnishee upon the execution within …

Sec. 52-391. Execution; demand for debt due from insolvent estate. When any debt due or which may become due from the estate of a deceased person which is settled as an insolvent estate, or from the estate of any insolvent debtor, is attached, the attachment lien shall not contin…

Sec. 52-392. Execution; payment by executor, administrator or trustee. When demand is made of the garnishee upon the execution, in any of the cases mentioned in sections 52-389, 52-390 and 52-391, within the periods therein specified, the garnishee may pay the debt, or deliver th…

Sec. 52-393. Scire facias against executor, administrator or trustee. If, upon demand so made, the garnishee neglects or refuses to make such payment or delivery, the plaintiff in the foreign attachment may maintain a scire facias against him as executor, administrator or trustee…

Secs. 52-394 to 52-396. Officer to give items of fees to execution debtor. Completion of levy by officer not reelected or reappointed. Satisfaction of judgment to be entered on record. Sections 52-394 to 52-396, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8138–8140; P.A. 83-581, S. 3…

Sec. 52-397. Examination of judgment debtor. Any judgment debtor, an execution against whom has been returned unsatisfied in whole or in part or who has failed to respond within thirty days to any postjudgment interrogatories served pursuant to section 52-351b, may be examined on…

Sec. 52-398. Scope of inquiry; debtor not excused from answering. The debtor shall not be excused from answering any question on the ground that his answer might tend to convict him of fraud or show that he has been party to any fraudulent or illegal conveyance, but his answers s…

Sec. 52-399. Commitment of debtor for contempt. Any judge before whom any such examination is ordered may commit the judgment debtor for contempt in case of his neglect or refusal to attend or be sworn at the examination or to answer any question put to him during the examination…