Rhode Island Procedural Requirements for Wage Garnishment

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Rhode Island Procedural Requirements

In all actions where the plaintiff's claim against the defendant has been reduced to a judgment, the defendant's assets, including his personal eStatutee and real eStatutee, may be attached without any further hearing by the court and may be subject to trustee process in the same action in which the judgment has been entered. R.I. Gen. Laws _ 1052.

Whenever any person, partnership or corporation shall be served with a judicial writ, original or mesne process, with purpose of attaching the wages or personal eStatutee of the defendant in the hands or possession of such person, partnership or corporation, such entity shall render an account in writing, upon oath, to the court to which the writ is returnable. The original account shall Statutee what wages or personal eStatutee, if any, up to the amount of the demands set forth in the writ, such trustee had in his, her or its hands or possession at the time the writ was served. R.I. Gen. Laws _ 10172.

In any action where money or other property shall have been trusteed in the hands of a person, firm or corporation, the person signing the garnishee's answer may be summoned by either party at any time before final judgment and subjected to examination and crossexamination upon all matters relating to or connected with the facts set forth in such answer, and evidence may be introduced to contradict the testimony of such person. A person summoned shall be entitled to an attendance fee of three dollars and lawful mileage. R.I. Gen. Laws _ 10176.

Every person, copartnership or corporation served with a copy of a writ for attaching the eStatutee of another in his or its hands or possession shall be paid all lawful costs and charges which he or it shall incur in consequence of being served with such writ of attachment by the person who brings the action or suit; and so much of such charge as shall be judged reasonable by the court before whom the cause shall be pending shall be allowed in the bill of costs. R.I. Gen. Laws _ 101722.

Interest at which Judgments Accrue

Every judgment for money shall draw interest at the rate of twelve per cent per annum to the time of its discharge. R.I. Gen. Laws _ 9218.