Wage Garnishment
 

In 2002-04 the city of Leesburg, VA went after several Atlantic Coast Airlines pilots that were using apartments as crashpads. They noticed out of state license plates in the parking lots and subsequently went after the pilots for allegedly failing to pay personal property tax. I was one of them. The car (a Jeep Wrangler) was a temporary crash pad vehicle. I never received any notice of a legal preceding. Instead, I got a notice from the chief pilot's office that my paycheck was being garnished.

There is federal protection from garnishment/levy orders for certain type of funds, (i.e. SSA Retirement, Pensions, Disability etc.

Most States have a "due process protection" that can be invoked once the garnishment or levy order is signed/ordered, (but you have to act quickly).

Most run-of-the-mill Attorneys know very little about civil garnishments/levy orders and their related forensic financial matters along with the pertinent civil Federal and State due process clauses and attached protections.