The legislature recognizes that a garnishee has no responsibility for the situation leading to the garnishment of a debtor's wages, funds, or other property, but that the garnishment process is necessary for the enforcement of obligations debtors otherwise fail to honor, and that garnishment procedures benefit the state and the business community as creditors. The state should take whatever measures that are reasonably necessary to reduce or offset the administrative burden on the garnishee consistent with the goal of effectively enforcing the debtor's unpaid obligations.
RCW 6.27.005
Legislative intent.
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 472 F. Supp. 2d 1235 - Sprinkle v. SB&C LTD. (2006)
Most recently applied in Seven Sales, LLC v. Otterbien (August 2015)
2000 c 72 s 1; 1998 c 227 s 1; 1997 c 296 s 1.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.