1.4.3 Debtor’s and Creditor’s Rights After Judgment for Creditor
1.4.3 Debtor’s and Creditor’s Rights After Judgment for Creditor
- • Servicemembers’ right to vacate default judgment—§ 12.2, infra
- • Setting aside a default, stipulated, or litigated judgment—§ 12.3, infra
- • Debtor’s bankruptcy filing as limiting the effect of the judgment—§ 12.5, infra
- • Statute of limitations for the creditor to enforce a judgment—§ 13.6.2, infra
- • Whether there is a valid assignment of the judgment to the party seeking to enforce it—§ 13.6.1, infra
- • Protections from seizure of bank accounts, wages, benefits, and other income:
- • Seizure and freezes of debtor’s bank account—§ 14.5, infra
- • Garnishment of debtor’s wages—§ 14.2, infra
- • Employer discharge of debtor for wage garnishment—§ 14.2.1.6, infra
- • Seizure of debtor’s benefit payments—§ 14.3, infra
- • Seizure of debtor’s pensions and retirement benefits—§§ 14.4.1–14.4.4, infra
- • Homestead exemptions and protecting the debtor’s home—§ 15.2, infra
- • Exemptions and seizure of vehicles, household goods, and other personal property—§ 15.3, infra
- • Debtor’s examinations—§§ 16.2.1–16.2.4, infra
- • Imprisonment for debt—§ 16.3, infra
- • Whether the creditor is seeking to enforce the judgment in a state other than where the judgment was issued—§ 13.3.8, infra