Wage garnishments can resume in Gwinnett
Wage garnishments will again be allowed in Gwinnett County, nearly a month after a federal judge stopped all garnishments there.
The judge called Georgia’s garnishment law unconstitutional, but relented Monday and said that an earlier lawsuit didn’t address wage garnishments. Garnishments from bank accounts will still not be permitted in Gwinnett, and several other counties have stopped garnishments entirely or changed their own procedures while they waited for the state to alter the law.
To read more about the Monday order that allows wage garnishments, click here.
About the Author
Arielle Kass covers Gwinnett County for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She started at the paper in 2010, and has covered business and local government beats around metro Atlanta. Arielle is a graduate of Emory University.
