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V.I. Code tit. 5, § 521 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 44 - Same: Attachment or Execution and Garnishment of Wages|§ 521. Definitions

 (a) As used in this chapter the term “wages” means— (1) wages, salaries, commissions, or other remuneration for services performed by an employee for his employer including any such remuneration measured partly or wholly by percentages or share of profits, or by other sums based upon work done or results produced, whether or not the employee is given a drawing account; and (2) any drawing account made available to an employee by his employer. The term “wages” does not include any amount paid or payable to an employee who is not a resident of the Virgin Islands as remuneration for services performed within the Virgin Islands, if the period for which the employee is engaged by the employer to perform such services within the Virgin Islands is less than fifteen (15) consecutive days' duration; and any such amount shall be subject to attachment or execution without regard to this chapter. (b) As used in this chapter, the terms “employer” and “employer-garnishee” shall include the Government of the Virgin Islands and all departments and other instrumentalities thereof.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 522 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 44 - Same: Attachment or Execution and Garnishment of Wages|§ 522. Attachment of or execution on wages; percentage limitations; priority

 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, where an attachment or an execution on a judgment is levied upon wages due a judgment debtor from an employer-garnishee under the provisions of this title, the attachment or execution (referred to as the “levy” in the remainder of this chapter) may become a lien and a continuing levy upon the gross wages due or to become due to the judgment debtor for the amount specified in the levy, if so decreed by the courts, but subject to the following limitation: ten percent (10%) of so much of the gross wages as exceeds thirty dollars ($30) due or to become due to the judgment debtor from the employer-garnishee for any weekly pay period, or its equivalent for any pay period of a different duration. (b) The lien shall be a continuing levy until the judgment, interest, and costs thereof are fully satisfied and paid, and in no event may moneys be withheld by the employer-garnishee from the judgment debtor in amounts greater than those prescribed by this section. Only one levy upon the wages of the judgment debtor may be satisfied at one time. Where more than one levy is issued upon the wages of the same judgment debtor and served upon the same employer-garnishee, the levy first delivered to the marshal shall have priority, and all subsequent levies shall be satisfied in the order of priority according to the dates when they were so delivered to the marshal. (c) The percentage limitation prescribed by this section does not apply in the case of execution upon a judgment, order, or decree of any court in the Virgin Islands for the payment of any sum for the support or maintenance of a person's spouse or former spouse and any such execution, judgment, order or decree shall, in the discretion of the court, have priority over any levy that is subject to the provisions of this chapter. In the case of execution upon such a judgment, order, or decree for the payment of such sum for support or maintenance, the limitation shall be fifty percent (50%) of the gross wages due or to become due to any such person for the pay period or periods ending in any calendar month. (d) The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any execution, judgment, order or decree for the payment by a person of support or maintenance for his or her children. Such executions, judgments, orders or decrees shall be governed by Title 16, chapter 13, subchapter 1 of this Code and shall in all instances take priority over any levy governed by the provisions of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 523 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 44 - Same: Attachment or Execution and Garnishment of Wages|§ 523. Employers duty to withhold and make payment; percentage

 (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section an employer upon whom levy is served, and who— (1) at the time is indebted for wages to an employee who is the judgment debtor named in the levy, or (2) becomes so indebted to the judgment debtor in the future, shall, while the levy remains a lien upon such indebtedness, withhold and pay the judgment creditor or his legal representative, within fifteen days after the close of the last pay period of the judgment debtor ending in each calendar month, that percentage of the gross wages payable to the judgment debtor for the pay periods in such calendar month to which the judgment creditor is entitled under any levy until such levy is wholly satisfied. (b) Upon written notice of any court proceeding attacking the levy or the judgment on which it is based the employer shall make no further payments to the judgment creditor or his legal representative until receipt of an order of court terminating the proceedings. (c) Any payments made by an employer-garnishee in conformity with this chapter shall be a discharge of the liability of the employer to the judgment debtor to the extent of the payment.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 524 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 44 - Same: Attachment or Execution and Garnishment of Wages|§ 524. Judgment creditor to file receipts of amounts collected

 (a) The judgment creditor shall— (1) file with the clerk of the court every three months after the serving of levy upon an employer-garnishee a receipt showing the amount received and the balance due under the levy as of the date of filing; (2) file a final receipt with the court and furnish a copy thereof to the employer-garnishee; and (3) obtain a vacation of the levy within twenty (20) days after such levy has been satisfied. (b) If the judgment creditor fails to file any of the receipts prescribed by subsection (a) of this section, any interested party may move the court to compel the defaulting judgment creditor to appear in court and make an accounting forthwith. The court may, in its discretion, enter judgment for any damages, including a reasonable attorney's fee suffered by, and tax costs in favor of, the party filing the motion to compel the accounting.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 525 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 44 - Same: Attachment or Execution and Garnishment of Wages|§ 525. Judgment against employer-garnishee for failure to pay percentages

 If the employer-garnishee fails to pay to the judgment creditor the percentages prescribed by the court decree of the wages which become payable to the judgment debtor for any pay period, judgment shall be entered against said employer-garnishee for an amount equal the percentages with respect to which the failure occurs.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 526 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 44 - Same: Attachment or Execution and Garnishment of Wages|§ 526. Lapse of attachment or execution upon resignation or dismissal of employee

 If the judgment debtor resigns or is dismissed from his employment while a levy upon his wages is wholly or partly unsatisfied, the levy shall lapse and no further deduction may be made thereon, unless the judgment debtor is reinstated or reemployed within ninety (90) days after the resignation or dismissal.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 527 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 44 - Same: Attachment or Execution and Garnishment of Wages|§ 527. Assignment of future wages; validity as against attachment or execution levied upon wages

 An assignment of wages to become due shall not be valid against a levy upon such wages under this chapter unless executed in writing prior to the date of the levy and made to secure a debt of an amount therein stated, contracted prior to or simultaneous with the execution of the assignment.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 528 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 44 - Same: Attachment or Execution and Garnishment of Wages|§ 528. Judgments; lapse; validity

 A levy issued by any court in the Virgin Islands upon a judgment and levied within twenty years from the date of the judgment the employer-garnishee, shall not lapse or become invalid prior to upon the wages due or to become due to the judgment debtor from complete satisfaction solely by reason of the expiration of the twenty-year period of limitation set forth in section 31 of this title.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 529 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 44 - Same: Attachment or Execution and Garnishment of Wages|§ 529. Payments by employer-garnishee where employee has no salary or salary inadequate for services rendered

 Where the judgment debtor claims or is proved to be rendering services to or employed by a relative or other person, or by a corporation owned or controlled by a relative or other person, without salary or compensation, or at a salary or compensation so inadequate as to satisfy the court that the salary or compensation is merely colorable and designed to defraud or impede the creditors of the debtor, the court may direct the employer-garnishee to make payments on account of the judgment in installments, based upon reasonable value of the services rendered by the judgment debtor under his employment or upon the judgment debtor's then earning ability.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 530 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 44 - Same: Attachment or Execution and Garnishment of Wages|§ 530. Quashing attachment or execution where judgment obtained to hinder just claims

 Where a levy under this chapter is based upon a judgment obtained by default or consent without a trial upon the merits, the court, upon motion of any interested person, may quash such levy upon satisfactory proof that the judgment was obtained without just cause and solely for the purpose of preventing or delaying the satisfaction of just claims.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 531 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 44 - Same: Attachment or Execution and Garnishment of Wages|§ 531. Rules of procedure

 The judge of the district court of the Virgin Islands shall establish such rules of procedure as may be necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 532 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 44 - Same: Attachment or Execution and Garnishment of Wages|§ 532. Attachments and executions to which this chapter is applicable

 This chapter applies only with respect to levies upon wages, as defined by section 521 of this chapter, issued on or after sixty days from the effective date of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 541 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 45 - Costs|§ 541. Costs defined

 (a) Costs which may be allowed in a civil action include: (1) Fees of officers, witnesses, and jurors; (2) Necessary expenses of taking depositions which were reasonably necessary in the action; (3) Expenses of publication of the summons or notices, and the postage when they are served by mail; (4) Compensation of a master as provided in Rule 53 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; (5) Necessary expense of copying any public record, book, or document used as evidence on the trial; and (6) Attorney's fees as provided in subsection (b) of this section. (b) The measure and mode of compensation of attorneys shall be left to the agreement, express or implied, of the parties; but there shall be allowed to the prevailing party in the judgment such sums as the court in its discretion may fix by way of indemnity for his attorney's fees in maintaining the action or defenses thereto; provided, however, the award of attorney's fees in personal injury cases is prohibited unless the court finds that the complaint filed or the defense is frivolous. (c) For the purposes of this section, “frivolous” means: (i) without legal or factual merit; or (ii) for the purpose of causing unnecessary delay; or (iii) for the purpose of harassing an opposing party.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 542 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 45 - Costs|§ 542. Collection of costs by execution

 The costs which a party is entitled to recover may be collected by execution to enforce the judgment as a part thereof.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 543 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 45 - Costs|§ 543. Taxation of costs

 (a) A bill of costs shall be filed in the case and, upon allowance, included in the judgment or decree. (b) Before any bill of costs is taxed, the party claiming any item of cost shall attach thereto an affidavit, made by himself or by his duly authorized attorney or agent having knowledge of the facts, that such item is correct and has been necessarily incurred in the case and that the services for which fees have been charged were actually and necessarily performed. (c) Costs which a party is entitled to recover must be taxed, whether or not they have been paid by such party.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 544 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 45 - Costs|§ 544. Infant plaintiff

 Except in the case of a guardian ad litem under section 73 of this title, when costs or disbursements are adjudged against an infant plaintiff, the guardian by whom he appeared in the action shall be responsible therefor, as if he were the actual plaintiff in such action, and payment thereof may be enforced against him accordingly.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 545 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 45 - Costs|§ 545. Parties acting in representative capacity

 In an action prosecuted or defended by an executor, administrator, trustee of an express trust, or a person expressly authorized by a statute to prosecute or defend therein, costs shall be recovered as in ordinary cases, but such costs shall only be chargeable upon or collected from the estate, fund, or party represented, unless the court orders the same to be recovered from the plaintiff or defendant personally for mismanagement or bad faith in such action or the defense thereto.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 546 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 45 - Costs|§ 546. Public corporations as parties

 In all actions prosecuted or defended in the name and for the use of any public corporation in the Virgin Islands, the public corporation shall be liable for and may recover costs in like manner and with like effect as in the case of natural persons.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 547 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 45 - Costs|§ 547. Security for costs

 (a) If the plaintiff resides out of the Virgin Islands or is a foreign corporation, the defendant may serve a notice requiring security for the costs which may be awarded against the plaintiff. After the service of such a notice, all proceedings in the action shall be stayed until security is given by the plaintiff. (b) Upon proof that the original security is insufficient, the court may order that new or additional security be given. (c) Security shall be given under this section either— (1) after notice by filing with the clerk an undertaking with sufficient sureties to the effect that they will pay such costs as may be awarded against the plaintiff by judgment, or in the progress of the action, not exceeding the sum of $1000; or (2) pursuant to court order by making a deposit with the clerk such additional sum as the Court may direct. (d) The court may dismiss the action if security is not given within 30 days after the service of a notice requiring security or an order requiring new or additional security. (e) Whenever more than one defendant is named, the undertaking shall be increased not to exceed $500 for each additional defendant in whose favor such undertaking is ordered, not to exceed a total of $3,000. (f) This section shall not apply to an action commenced in the small claims division of the Superior Court.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 581 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 47 - Uniform Interstate Enforcement of Domestic-Violence Protection Orders|§ 581. Short title

 This chapter may be cited as the “Uniform Interstate Enforcement of Domestic-Violence Protection Orders Act.”
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 582 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 47 - Uniform Interstate Enforcement of Domestic-Violence Protection Orders|§ 582. Definitions

 In this chapter: (1) “Foreign protection order” means a protection order issued by a tribunal of another State. (2) “Issuing State” means the State whose tribunal issues a protection order. (3) “Mutual foreign protection order” means a foreign protection order that includes provisions in favor of both the protected individual seeking enforcement of the order and the respondent. (4) “Protected individual” means an individual protected by a protection order. (5) “Protection order” means an injunction or other order, issued by a tribunal under the domestic-violence, family-violence, or anti-stalking laws of the issuing State, to prevent an individual from engaging in violent or threatening acts against, harassment of, contact or communication with, or physical proximity to, another individual. (6) “Respondent” means the individual against whom enforcement of a protection order is sought. (7) “State” means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. The term includes an Indian tribe or band that has jurisdiction to issue protection orders. (8) “Tribunal” means a court, agency, or other entity, authorized by law to issue or modify a protection order.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 583 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 47 - Uniform Interstate Enforcement of Domestic-Violence Protection Orders|§ 583. Enforcement

 (a) A person authorized by the law of this State to seek enforcement of a protection order may seek enforcement of a valid foreign protection order in a tribunal of this State. The tribunal shall enforce the terms of the order, including terms that provide relief that a tribunal of this State would lack power to provide but for this section. The tribunal shall enforce the order, whether the order was obtained by independent action or in another proceeding, if it is an order issued in response to a complaint, petition, or motion filed by or on behalf of an individual seeking protection. In a proceeding to enforce a foreign protection order, the tribunal shall follow the procedures of this State for the enforcement of protection orders. (b) A tribunal of this State may not enforce a foreign protection order issued by a tribunal of a State that does not recognize the standing of a protected individual to seek enforcement of the order. (c) A tribunal of this State shall enforce the provisions of a valid foreign protection order which govern custody and visitation, if the order was issued in accordance with the jurisdictional requirements governing the issuance of custody and visitation orders in the issuing State. (d) A foreign protection order is valid if it: (1) identifies the protected individual and the respondent; (2) is currently in effect; (3) was issued by a tribunal that had jurisdiction over the parties and subject matter under the law of the issuing State; and (4) was issued after the respondent was given reasonable notice and had an opportunity to be heard before the tribunal issued the order or, in the case of an order ex parte, the respondent was given notice and has had or will have an opportunity to be heard within a reasonable time after the order was issued, in a manner consistent with the rights of the respondent to due process. (e) A foreign protection order valid on its face is prima facie evidence of its validity. (f) Absence of any of the criteria for validity of a foreign protection order is an affirmative defense in an action seeking enforcement of the order. (g) A tribunal of this State may enforce provisions of a mutual foreign protection order which favor a respondent only if: (1) the respondent filed a written pleading seeking a protection order from the tribunal of the issuing State; and (2) the tribunal of the issuing State made specific findings in favor of the respondent.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 584 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 47 - Uniform Interstate Enforcement of Domestic-Violence Protection Orders|§ 584. Enforcement by law enforcement officer

 (a) A law enforcement officer of this State, upon determining that there is probable cause to believe that a valid foreign protection order exists and that the order has been violated, shall enforce the order as if it were the order of a tribunal of this State. Presentation of a protection order that identifies both the protected individual and the respondent and, on its face, is currently in effect constitutes probable cause to believe that a valid foreign protection order exists. For the purposes of this section, the protection order may be inscribed on a tangible medium or may have been stored in an electronic or other medium if it is retrievable in perceivable form. Presentation of a certified copy of a protection order is not required for enforcement. (b) If a foreign protection order is not presented, a law enforcement officer of this State may consider other information in determining whether there is probable cause to believe that a valid foreign protection order exists. (c) If a law enforcement officer of this State determines that an otherwise valid foreign protection order cannot be enforced because the respondent has not been notified or served with the order, the officer shall inform the respondent of the order, make a reasonable effort to serve the order upon the respondent, and allow the respondent a reasonable opportunity to comply with the order before enforcing the order. (d) Registration or filing of an order in this State is not required for the enforcement of a valid foreign protection order pursuant to this chapter.