If I have a credit card wage garnishment judgement against me does that count on job applications when they ask about lawsuits, etc?
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If I have a credit card wage garnishment judgement against me does that count on job applications when they ask about lawsuits, etc?
I don’t want to lie on applications and not get hired but I ddint really think of my wage garnishments as guilty or not guilty tyoes of things. Should I be putting them on applications?
Asked on April 5, 2012 under Employment Labor Law, New Jersey
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
If the question asks about past lawsuits and the like, you'd have to disclose the garnishment, since it is the product of an adverse legal action, a judgmement, against you.
If the question asks only about current lawsuits against you, then you would not need to disclose the garnishment--the judgment that initiated it is the past. However, if the question asks about any judgments or debts you owe, then again, you would need to disclose it.
Your disclosure obligatons therefore depend on precisely what the question asks.
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