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Article: Daily Record News Briefs: January 20, 2009
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- January 20, 2009
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PI settlement cannot be garnished
A personal injury settlement is not subject to garnishment for
child support, the Court of Special Appeals has held.
Such a settlement is an asset "protecting personal dignity" and
therefore exempt from attachment, Judge Alexander Wright Jr. wrote
for the unanimous three-judge panel, affirming a lower-court
decision.
"'A person is not a chattel subject to attachment in satisfaction
of a debt, and so, too, a lawsuit seeking to recompense him for
damage to his person is likewise protected from attachment'," Wright
wrote, quoting a federal bankruptcy court ruling.
Curtis and Rosalind Rosemann divorced in 1995, and Rosalind
Rosemann was ordered to pay $3,800 ...