Nevada Code § 31.290

Form of interrogatories to garnishee; garnishee to answer in writing under oath
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1. The interrogatories to be submitted
with any writ of execution, attachment or garnishment to the garnishee may be
in substance as follows:
INTERROGATORIES
Are you in any manner
indebted to the defendants....................................
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or either of them, either in
property or money, and is the debt now due? If not due, when is the debt to
become due? State fully all particulars.
Answer:..............................................................................................................
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Are you an employer of
one or all of the defendants? If so, state the length of your pay period and
the amount of disposable earnings, as defined in NRS 31.295 , that each defendant presently
earns during a pay period. State the minimum amount of disposable earnings that
is exempt from this garnishment, which is the federal minimum hourly wage
prescribed by section 206(a)(1) of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act of
1938, 29 U.S.C. 201 et seq., in effect at the time the earnings are payable
multiplied by 50 for each week of the pay period, after deducting any amount
required by law to be withheld.
Calculate the garnishable amount as
follows:
(Check one of the following) The
employee is paid:
[A] Weekly: __ [B] Biweekly: __ [C]
Semimonthly: __ [D] Monthly: __
(1) Gross Earnings $__________
(2) Deductions required by
law (not including child support) ________ $
(3) Disposable Earnings
[Subtract line 2 from line 1] $__________
(4) Federal Minimum
Wage $__________
(5) Multiply line 4 by
50 $__________
(6) Complete the following
directions in accordance with the letter selected above:
[A] Multiply line 5 by
1 $__________
[B] Multiply line 5 by
2 $__________
[C] Multiply line 5 by
52 and then divide by 24 $__________
[D] Multiply line 5 by
52 and then divide by 12 $__________
(7) Subtract line 6
from line 3 $__________
This is the attachable
earnings. This amount must not exceed 18% of the disposable earnings from line
3 if the employees gross weekly salary or wage on the date the most recent
writ of garnishment was issued was $770 or less, or 25% of the disposable
earnings from line 3 if the employees gross weekly salary or wage on the date
the most recent writ of garnishment was issued exceeded $770.
Answer:..............................................................................................................
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What is the gross weekly
salary or wage of the employee? The gross weekly salary or wage of an employee
must be determined as follows:
1. Except as
otherwise provided in numbers 2 and 3 below, by dividing the employees gross
earnings for the current calendar year as of the date the most recent writ of
garnishment was issued by the total number of weeks the employee has worked in
the current calendar year.
2. If the most
recent writ of garnishment was issued at the beginning of the current calendar
year before the employee received any earnings in the current calendar year,
but the employee received earnings in the previous calendar year, by dividing
the employees gross earnings for the previous calendar year by the total
number of weeks the employee worked in the previous calendar year.
3. If the
employee has not been employed long enough to have been paid as of the date the
most recent writ of garnishment was issued, or if the provisions of number 1 or
2 above do not otherwise apply, the gross weekly salary or wage of the employee
is the anticipated gross weekly earnings of the employee as determined by his
or her employer.
For the purpose of
determining the total number of weeks the employee has worked in the current
calendar year or the total number of weeks the employee worked in the previous
calendar year, as applicable, if the total number of weeks is not exact, the
number must be rounded down if the number of days the employee was on the
payroll of his or her employer in excess of a whole week is 3 days or less, and
rounded up if the number of days the employee was on the payroll of his or her
employer in excess of a whole week is 4 days or more.
Answer:..............................................................................................................
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Did you have in your
possession, in your charge or under your control, on the date the writ of
garnishment was served upon you, any money, property, effects, goods, chattels,
rights, credits or choses in action of the defendants, or either of them, or in
which ............................is interested? If so, state its value, and
state fully all particulars.
Answer:..............................................................................................................
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Do you know of any
debts owing to the defendants, whether due or not due, or any money, property,
effects, goods, chattels, rights, credits or choses in action, belonging to
............... or in which ...........................is interested, and now
in the possession or under the control of others? If so, state particulars.
Answer:..............................................................................................................
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Are you a financial
institution with a personal account held by one or all of the defendants? If
so, state the account number and the amount of money in the account which is
subject to garnishment. As set forth in NRS
21.105 , $2,000 or the entire amount in the account, whichever is less, is
not subject to garnishment if the financial institution reasonably identifies
that an electronic deposit of money has been made into the account within the
immediately preceding 45 days which is exempt from execution, including,
without limitation, payments of money described in NRS 21.105 or, if no such deposit has been
made, $400 or the entire amount in the account, whichever is less, is not
subject to garnishment, unless the garnishment is for the recovery of money
owed for the support of any person. The amount which is not subject to
garnishment does not apply to each account of the judgment debtor, but rather
is an aggregate amount that is not subject to garnishment.
Answer:..............................................................................................................
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State your correct name
and address, or the name and address of your attorney upon whom written notice
of further proceedings in this action may be served.
Answer:..............................................................................................................
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Garnishee
I (insert the name of
the garnishee), declare under penalty of perjury that the answers to the
foregoing interrogatories by me subscribed are true and correct.
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(Signature
of garnishee)
2. The garnishee shall answer the
interrogatories in writing upon oath or affirmation and submit the answers to
the sheriff within the time required by the writ. The garnishee shall submit
his or her answers to the judgment debtor within the same time. If the
garnishee fails to do so, the garnishee shall be deemed in default.

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