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NV Rev Stat § 31.270 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Attachment, Garnishment and Other Extraordinary Remedies|NRS 31.270 - Service of writ; tender of garnishee’s fees.

  1. The writ of garnishment shall be served by the sheriff of the county where the garnishee defendant is found, unless the court directs otherwise, in the same manner as provided by rule of court or law of this state for the service of a summons in a civil action.  2. At the time of the service of the writ of garnishment, the garnishee shall be paid or tendered by the plaintiff in the action or the officer serving the writ a fee of $5, and unless such sum is paid or tendered to the garnishee defendant or the person upon whom service is made for the garnishee defendant, service shall be deemed incomplete.  [1911 CPA § 230; A 1953, 548] — (NRS A 1973, 1182)
NV Rev Stat § 31.280 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Attachment, Garnishment and Other Extraordinary Remedies|NRS 31.280 - Service and return of writ give court jurisdiction.

The sheriff’s return of the writ of garnishment showing due service of the writ of garnishment upon one or more garnishee defendants with the payment or tender of the garnishee’s fees shall give the court jurisdiction to proceed against each such garnishee.  [1911 CPA § 231; RL § 5173; NCL § 8729] — (NRS A 1973, 1183)
NV Rev Stat § 31.291 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Attachment, Garnishment and Other Extraordinary Remedies|NRS 31.291 - Garnishment of certain financial institutions.

  1. Debts and credits, due or to become due, from a bank incorporated under the laws of the State of Nevada or the laws of the United States of America, or other personal property held by the bank must be garnished by serving a copy of the writ of garnishment on one of the following officers of the bank:  (a) If the bank has no branches, trust department or military facility, on the president, vice president, assistant vice president, cashier, assistant cashier, manager or other managing officer in charge of the bank owing the debts, or having in its possession or under its control the credits or other personal property.  (b) If the bank has branches or military facilities owing the debts or having in its possession or under its control the credits or other personal property, on the vice president, assistant vice president, assistant cashier, manager or other managing officer in charge of the branch or in charge of the military facility. Service on that officer or agent constitutes a valid levy on any debt, credit or other personal property owing by any branch or military facility of the bank.  (c) If the bank has a trust department owing the debts or having in its possession or under its control the credits or other personal property, on the vice president and trust officer, trust officer, assistant trust officer or other managing officer of the trust department.  2. Debts and credits due or to become due from a credit union, savings and loan association or savings bank incorporated under the laws of the State of Nevada or the laws of the United States of America or other personal property and choses in action held by the credit union, savings and loan association or savings bank must be garnished by serving the writ of garnishment in the same manner as upon banks pursuant to subsection 1.  3. A garnishment pursuant to this section creates a lien only upon the amounts in the accounts or to the credit of the debtor at the time of service of the writ of garnishment. An item in the process of collection is included in the amount of an account unless the item is returned unpaid. Money in the accounts that the garnishee has declared under oath and in answers to interrogatories to be exempt from execution is not included in the amount of the account.  4. No garnishment may occur until the defendant has been served with the notice of execution in substantially the form prescribed in NRS 31.045 and in the manner prescribed in NRS 21.076.  (Added to NRS by 1973, 1185; A 1985, 21; 1989, 1143; 1995, 107; 1999, 1455)
NV Rev Stat § 31.292 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Attachment, Garnishment and Other Extraordinary Remedies|NRS 31.292 - Garnishment of court clerks, sheriffs, justices of the peace, peace officers, other public officers, executors and administrators.

  1. Clerks of the courts, sheriffs, justices of the peace, peace officers and all other officers who may, by virtue of their office, collect or hold money belonging to a defendant and all guardians, attorneys and trustees are subject to garnishment in the same manner and to the same extent as other persons are subject to be garnished.  2. Executors and administrators may be garnished for debts due by the legatees or distributees, but no judgment may be rendered against them until a settlement is made of the estate, unless they assent to the legacy or admit assets to pay the amount claimed, or some portion thereof, out of the distributive share of the debtor.  (Added to NRS by 1973, 1185)
NV Rev Stat § 31.293 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Attachment, Garnishment and Other Extraordinary Remedies|NRS 31.293 - Unpaid subscription to corporate stock subject to garnishment by creditor of corporation.

Any creditor of a corporation may, by garnishment, subject the unpaid subscription of any stockholder in such corporation to the payment of its debts.  (Added to NRS by 1973, 1185)
NV Rev Stat § 31.294 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Attachment, Garnishment and Other Extraordinary Remedies|NRS 31.294 - Procedure for garnishment when another action pending.

Money, property, demands, debts, claims, choses in action and any other property which is subject to garnishment may be reached and subjected even though another action is pending thereon. If the other action is not pending in the court from which the garnishment issues, the court, on proof by the garnishee of the pendency of the other action, must stay such proceedings against such garnishee until notified that a final judgment has been rendered. Upon such notification the court shall make an appropriate order, according to the judgment, in favor of the defendant for the use of the plaintiff or in favor of the garnishee defendant. The judgment, if rendered against the garnishee, acquits the garnishee from all demands by the defendant for all money, property, goods, effects and credits paid, delivered or accounted for by the garnishee by force of such judgment.  (Added to NRS by 1973, 1185)
NV Rev Stat § 31.2945 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Attachment, Garnishment and Other Extraordinary Remedies|NRS 31.2945 - Garnishment under foreign judgment: Liability for failure to comply with Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act.

  1. Any judgment debtor who is a resident of this State and who maintains an account or any other property at a branch of a financial institution located in this State or whose earnings are derived from employment in this State may bring a civil action against a judgment creditor under a foreign judgment if the judgment creditor, without satisfying the requirements of NRS 17.330 to 17.400, inclusive, has obtained a writ of garnishment to satisfy all or part of the foreign judgment from:  (a) The earnings of the judgment debtor derived from employment in this State; or  (b) Money in the account or any other property maintained by the judgment debtor at a branch of a financial institution located in this State.  2. A judgment debtor who prevails in an action brought under this section may recover from the judgment creditor damages equal to two times any amount paid to the judgment creditor under the writ of garnishment. If the judgment debtor prevails in an action brought under this section, the court must award reasonable attorney’s fees and costs to the plaintiff.  3. As used in this section, "foreign judgment" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 17.340.  (Added to NRS by 2017, 1973)
NV Rev Stat § 31.295 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Attachment, Garnishment and Other Extraordinary Remedies|NRS 31.295 - Garnishment of earnings: Limitations on amount.

  1. As used in this section:  (a) "Disposable earnings" means that part of the earnings of any person remaining after the deduction from those earnings of any amounts required by law to be withheld.  (b) "Earnings" means compensation paid or payable for personal services performed by a judgment debtor in the regular course of business, including, without limitation, compensation designated as income, wages, tips, a salary, a commission or a bonus. The term includes compensation received by a judgment debtor that is in the possession of the judgment debtor, compensation held in accounts maintained in a bank or any other financial institution or, in the case of a receivable, compensation that is due the judgment debtor.  2. The maximum amount of the aggregate disposable earnings of a person which are subject to garnishment may not exceed:  (a) Eighteen percent of the person’s disposable earnings for the relevant workweek if the person’s gross weekly salary or wage on the date the most recent writ of garnishment was issued was $770 or less;  (b) Twenty-five percent of the person’s disposable earnings for the relevant workweek if the person’s gross weekly salary or wage on the date the most recent writ of garnishment was issued exceeded $770; or  (c) The amount by which the person’s disposable earnings for that week exceed 50 times 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,  whichever is less.  3. The restrictions of subsection 2 do not apply in the case of:  (a) Any order of any court for the support of any person.  (b) Any order of any court of bankruptcy.  (c) Any debt due for any state or federal tax.  4. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the maximum amount of the aggregate disposable earnings of a person for any workweek which are subject to garnishment to enforce any order for the support of any person may not exceed:  (a) Fifty percent of the person’s disposable earnings for that week if the person is supporting a spouse or child other than the spouse or child for whom the order of support was rendered; or  (b) Sixty percent of the person’s disposable earnings for that week if the person is not supporting such a spouse or child,  except that if the garnishment is to enforce a previous order of support with respect to a period occurring at least 12 weeks before the beginning of the workweek, the limits which apply to the situations described in paragraphs (a) and (b) are 55 percent and 65 percent, respectively.  (Added to NRS by 1971, 1499; A 1985, 1430; 2005, 1020; 2017, 1982)
NV Rev Stat § 31.2955 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Attachment, Garnishment and Other Extraordinary Remedies|NRS 31.2955 - Garnishment of earnings: Calculations for determining gross weekly salary or wage of employee.

  1. For the purposes of NRS 31.240 to 31.460, inclusive:  (a) Except as otherwise provided in paragraphs (b) and (c), the gross weekly salary or wage of an employee must be determined by dividing the employee’s 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.  (b) If the most recent writ of garnishment was issued at the beginning of the current calendar year before an employee received any earnings in the current calendar year, but the employee received earnings in the previous calendar year, the gross weekly salary or wage of the employee must be determined by dividing the employee’s gross earnings for the previous calendar year by the total number of weeks the employee worked in the previous calendar year.  (c) If an 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 paragraph (a) or (b) 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.   2. For the purpose of determining the total number of weeks an employee has worked in the current calendar year pursuant to paragraph (a) of subsection 1 or the total number of weeks an employee worked in the previous calendar year pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 1, if the total number of weeks is not exact, the number must be:  (a) 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  (b) 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.  (Added to NRS by 2017, 1974)
NV Rev Stat § 31.296 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Attachment, Garnishment and Other Extraordinary Remedies|NRS 31.296 - Garnishment of earnings: Period of garnishment; fee for withholding; termination of employment; periodic report by judgment creditor.

  1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, if the garnishee indicates in the garnishee’s answer to garnishee interrogatories that the garnishee is the employer of the defendant, the writ of garnishment served on the garnishee shall be deemed to continue for 180 days or until the amount demanded in the writ is satisfied, whichever occurs earlier.  2. In addition to the fee set forth in NRS 31.270, a garnishee is entitled to a fee from the plaintiff of $3 per pay period, not to exceed $12 per month, for each withholding made of the defendant’s earnings. This subsection does not apply to the first pay period in which the defendant’s earnings are garnished.  3. If the defendant’s employment by the garnishee is terminated before the writ of garnishment is satisfied, the garnishee:  (a) Is liable only for the amount of earned but unpaid, disposable earnings that are subject to garnishment.  (b) Shall provide the plaintiff or the plaintiff’s attorney with the last known address of the defendant and the name of any new employer of the defendant, if known by the garnishee.  4. The judgment creditor who caused the writ of garnishment to issue pursuant to NRS 31.260 shall prepare an accounting and provide a report to the judgment debtor, the sheriff and each garnishee every 180 days which sets forth, without limitation, the amount owed by the judgment debtor, the costs and fees allowed pursuant to NRS 18.160 and any accrued interest and costs on the judgment. The report must advise the judgment debtor of the judgment debtor’s right to request a hearing pursuant to NRS 18.110 to dispute any accrued interest, fee or other charge. Any subsequent application for writ made by the judgment creditor concerning the same debt must not be approved unless such an accounting and report are submitted with the application.  (Added to NRS by 1989, 699; A 2011, 1907; 2013, 3811; 2017, 1983)
NV Rev Stat § 31.297 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Attachment, Garnishment and Other Extraordinary Remedies|NRS 31.297 - Garnishment of earnings: Liability of employer for refusal to withhold or for misrepresentation of earnings.

  1. If without legal justification an employer of the defendant refuses to withhold earnings of the defendant demanded in a writ of garnishment or knowingly misrepresents the earnings of the defendant, the court may order the employer to appear and show cause why the employer should not be subject to the penalties prescribed in subsection 2.  2. If after a hearing upon the order to show cause, the court determines that an employer, without legal justification, refused to withhold the earnings of a defendant demanded in a writ of garnishment or knowingly misrepresented the earnings of the defendant, the court shall order the employer to pay the plaintiff, if the plaintiff has received a judgment against the defendant, the amount of arrearages caused by the employer’s refusal to withhold or the employer’s misrepresentation of the defendant’s earnings. In addition, the court may order the employer to pay the plaintiff punitive damages in an amount not to exceed $1,000 for each pay period in which the employer has, without legal justification, refused to withhold the defendant’s earnings or has misrepresented the earnings.  (Added to NRS by 1989, 699)
NV Rev Stat § 31.298 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Attachment, Garnishment and Other Extraordinary Remedies|NRS 31.298 - Garnishment of earnings: Unlawful to discharge or discipline employee.

It is unlawful for an employer to discharge or discipline an employee exclusively because the employer is required to withhold the employee’s earnings pursuant to a writ of garnishment.  (Added to NRS by 1989, 700)
NV Rev Stat § 31.300 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Attachment, Garnishment and Other Extraordinary Remedies|NRS 31.300 - Property to be delivered to sheriff; sale; judgment against garnishee.

  1. If the answer of the garnishee shows that the garnishee has personal property of any kind in his or her possession, or under his or her control, belonging to the defendant, the court, upon application of the plaintiff with written notice to the garnishee at the address supplied on the answers to the interrogatories or to the attorney for the garnishee, shall enter judgment that the garnishee deliver the same to the sheriff, and if the plaintiff recover judgment against the defendant in the action, such property or so much thereof as may be necessary shall be sold as upon execution, and the proceeds applied toward the satisfaction of such judgment, together with the costs of the action and proceedings, and if there be a surplus of such property, or of the proceeds thereof, it shall be restored to the defendant.  2. If the answer shows that the garnishee is in possession of money, debts, credits or choses in action, or has any of such items under the garnishee’s control, or is in any way indebted to the defendant, then, if the plaintiff recover judgment against the defendant in the action, the court shall also, upon application of the plaintiff with written notice to the garnishee or the garnishee’s attorney in the manner provided in subsection 1, enter judgment in favor of the defendant for the use of the plaintiff against the garnishee for the amount of the indebtedness, choses in action, debts or credits admitted in the answer; but the judgment against the garnishee shall not be for a greater sum than is necessary to satisfy the judgment of the plaintiff against the defendant, together with costs as aforesaid; and in no case shall the garnishee be chargeable with costs unless the garnishee’s answer shall be successfully controverted as hereinafter provided.  [1911 CPA § 233; RL § 5175; NCL § 8731] — (NRS A 1973, 1186)
NV Rev Stat § 31.310 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Attachment, Garnishment and Other Extraordinary Remedies|NRS 31.310 - Property to be retained by garnishee or delivered to officer; effect of delivery; certificate of receipt of property.

  1. Subject to order of the court, a garnishee defendant upon whom a writ of garnishment has been duly served shall not pay any debt due or to become due to the defendant and shall retain in the garnishee’s possession and control, or deliver to the sheriff as provided herein, all personal property, effects, goods, chattels, rights, debts, credits or choses in action of the defendant.  2. In all cases the garnishee, upon submitting the garnishee’s answers to the garnishee interrogatories, may deliver to the sheriff or the officer serving the writ the property belonging to the defendant, together with the money due to the defendant, and the sheriff or officer shall give the garnishee defendant a receipt therefor, and thereupon the garnishee is relieved from further liability in the proceedings, unless the garnishee’s answer is successfully controverted.  3. The sheriff or officer shall hold the property and money to be dealt with as provided in NRS 31.300 and shall, by certificate, make return to the court showing the receipt thereof specifically describing the money and property and setting forth the date and time of its receipt. The certificate forms a part of the return of the writ of garnishment.  [1911 CPA § 234; RL § 5176; NCL § 8732] — (NRS A 1973, 1186; 2001, 476)
NV Rev Stat § 31.320 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Attachment, Garnishment and Other Extraordinary Remedies|NRS 31.320 - Judgment against garnishee on failure to answer; relief from judgment.

  1. If the garnishee has been duly served with the writ of garnishment and interrogatories, and been paid or tendered the fee of $5, and the fact of the payment or tender is duly certified by the officer who served the writ over the officer’s official signature, or that fact is made to appear by the person serving the writ under oath, but the garnishee fails, neglects or refuses to answer the interrogatories within the time required, the court shall, upon application therefor by the plaintiff with at least 5 days’ notice of the hearing upon the application given to each defendant who has appeared in the action, enter judgment in favor of the defendant for the use of the plaintiff against the garnishee for:  (a) The value of the property or amount of money specified in the writ of garnishment; or  (b) If the garnishment is pursuant to NRS 31.291, the amount of the lien created pursuant to that section.  2. On motion and upon such terms as are just, the court may relieve a garnishee defendant or the garnishee defendant’s legal representative from any final judgment against the garnishee defendant for the same reasons and upon the same terms and conditions as provided for by rule of court for relief from a judgment or order in civil cases.  [1911 CPA § 235; RL § 5177; NCL § 8733] — (NRS A 1973, 1187; 2001, 476)
NV Rev Stat § 31.330 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Attachment, Garnishment and Other Extraordinary Remedies|NRS 31.330 - Answer of garnishee; reply of plaintiff by affidavit.

If the garnishee answers as required by the writ, the plaintiff may, within 20 days after the expiration of the time allowed for the filing of such answer, reply to the whole or any part thereof by an affidavit traversing the same; the plaintiff may also in the plaintiff’s reply allege any matters which would charge the garnishee with liability according to the provisions of this chapter, and such affidavit may be upon information and belief. If the plaintiff fails to reply within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff shall be deemed to have accepted the answer of the garnishee as true, and judgment may be entered accordingly.  [1911 CPA § 236; RL § 5178; NCL § 8734] — (NRS A 1973, 1187)
NV Rev Stat § 31.340 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 31 - Attachment, Garnishment and Other Extraordinary Remedies|NRS 31.340 - New matter in plaintiff’s reply deemed denied; trial; judgment; costs; attorney’s fees.

New matter in the affidavit replying to the answer of the garnishee shall be taken as denied or avoided, and the matter thus at issue without further pleadings shall be tried in the same manner as other issues of like nature, and upon the verdict or finding thereon, judgment shall be entered the same as if the garnishee had answered according to such verdict or finding; but if the verdict or finding is as favorable to the garnishee as the garnishee’s answer, the garnishee shall recover costs of the proceeding against the plaintiff, together with a reasonable attorney’s fee, otherwise the plaintiff shall recover costs against the garnishee, together with a reasonable attorney’s fee.  [1911 CPA § 237; RL § 5179; NCL § 8735] — (NRS A 1973, 1187)