If my fiance currently pays child support, once we are married will they garnish my wages?
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If my fiance currently pays child support, once we are married will they garnish my wages?
Is there somehting I can file before we get married so she doesn’t come after my wages?
Asked on November 27, 2012 under Family Law, California
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 11 years ago | Contributor
No, your own wages and salary may not be garnished for your spouse's child support payments. Her share of your marital community property, however, could be the target of collections action; since some of that will be, for example, her share of bank accounts, real estate, and personal property purchased with the proceeds of your income or wages, indirectly--after it has already been earned and paid to you--some of your earnings could later be the subject of executions or liens.
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