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TN Code § 26-2-218 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 2 - Exemptions—garnishment|Part 2 - Garnishment|§ 26-2-218. Written Agreement for Installment Payments

 A written agreement for the payment of a judgment in installments, signed by the parties, their attorneys, or authorized agents acting in their behalf, and filed with the clerk of the court, shall have the same force and effect as an order made by the judge to stay the issuance, execution or return of any writ of garnishment against wages or salary due the judgment debtor during the period that such judgment debtor complies with the agreement.
TN Code § 26-2-219 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 2 - Exemptions—garnishment|Part 2 - Garnishment|§ 26-2-219. Failure to Comply With Agreement

  Should the judgment debtor fail to strictly comply with the terms of an agreement as provided by § 26-2-218, the stay of execution by garnishment shall immediately become null and void.   Upon the stay of execution by garnishment becoming void and the issuance and service of garnishment having taken place prior to the proceeding to obtain a stay of garnishment, the lien on wages provided by this section shall have priority over all liens executed subsequent to the original date of issuance.
TN Code § 26-2-220 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 2 - Exemptions—garnishment|Part 2 - Garnishment|§ 26-2-220. Applicability of Provisions for Garnishment on Attachments

 The provisions of Tennessee Code Annotated in regard to garnishment on attachments also regulate proceedings under this part whenever applicable.
TN Code § 26-2-221 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 2 - Exemptions—garnishment|Part 2 - Garnishment|§ 26-2-221. Garnishment of Compensation Due From State — Amount Exempted

 Garnishment of salaries, wages or other compensation due from the state, or from any county or municipality, to any officer or employee thereof, is permissible. Garnishment of compensation due from the state to contractors or vendors of the state is permissible. No such officer, employee, contractor, or vendor may validly claim any privilege or immunity in that regard. Such officer, employee, contractor, or vendor shall be entitled to an exemption of the amount of wages, salary, or compensation so due as is exempt from levy or garnishment in favor of officers, employees, contractors, or vendors of private corporations in like circumstances. However, notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, nothing set forth in this section shall be construed to apply to or to allow garnishments of state compensation to contractors or vendors of the state where the state determines that payment of such garnishment would result in an interruption of essential state services.
TN Code § 26-2-223 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 2 - Exemptions—garnishment|Part 2 - Garnishment|§ 26-2-223. No Wages Due Garnisheed Employee — Judgment Null and Void

 In any case where judgment is obtained under §§ 26-2-205 — 26-2-208, if there are no wages due such employee so garnished, such judgment shall be void and unenforceable.
TN Code § 26-2-224 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 2 - Exemptions—garnishment|Part 2 - Garnishment|§ 26-2-224. Time for Execution When Multiple Writs Exist

  Notwithstanding any other provision of law or rule to the contrary, a writ of garnishment that is filed later in time than another such writ, and which deducts the maximum amount allowable by law from the debtor's wages, shall not run concurrently with the earlier filed writ with regard to the six-month time limit prescribed in § 26-2-214. Such later filed writ of garnishment shall not begin to run until the earlier filed writ's judgment has been satisfied, such earlier filed writ has expired, or such earlier filed writ has been stayed by installment motion as prescribed in § 26-2-216.   The time limit prescribed in § 26-2-214 shall not be extended beyond six (6) months from the date of filing if the garnishee has failed to answer or remit funds for such later filed writ.   Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect the date of attachment or the status of any underlying statutory or common law lien rights of any later filed writ of garnishment.
TN Code § 26-2-225 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 2 - Exemptions—garnishment|Part 2 - Garnishment|§ 26-2-225. Notifying Judgment Creditor of New Employment

  A judgment debtor whose salaries, wages or other compensation are subject to a garnishment shall notify the judgment creditor who filed the writ of garnishment within ten (10) days, as computed in § 1-3-102, of obtaining any new employment. Notice to the judgment creditor shall be by certified mail and shall include the name, address and telephone number of the new employer. A judgment debtor who fails to provide notice of new employment in compliance with this section is in contempt of court and, upon the court making a determination of contempt, may be punished the same as contempt of court in a judicial proceeding. For purposes of a determination of contempt the debtor's notification of new employment to the judgment creditor shall be considered timely sent if mailed less than ten (10) days from the date of obtaining new employment.   Any fees imposed by the clerk or any other party on the transfer of garnishment to the debtor's new employment shall be imposed on the debtor by adding the amount to the debt to be collected.
TN Code § 26-2-302 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 2 - Exemptions—garnishment|Part 3 - Homestead Exemptions|§ 26-2-302. Life Estates and Equitable Estates

 Section 26-2-301 shall apply to life estates and equitable estates which are owned by an individual and used by the individual or individual's spouse or dependent as a principal place of residence. The homestead exemption in such estates shall be set apart as the court may prescribe in ordering the sale.
TN Code § 26-2-303 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 2 - Exemptions—garnishment|Part 3 - Homestead Exemptions|§ 26-2-303. Leasehold Estates

 Section 26-2-301 shall apply to leasehold real property which is possessed and used by an individual, an individual's spouse, or an individual's dependent, as a principal place of residence, provided such leasehold estate is for more than two (2) and not exceeding fifteen (15) years. The homestead exemption upon leasehold estates shall not be exempt from execution or attachment for rent due thereon.
TN Code § 26-2-304 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 2 - Exemptions—garnishment|Part 3 - Homestead Exemptions|§ 26-2-304. Insurance Proceeds From Homestead

 All moneys arising from insurance on a homestead which is destroyed by fire, or by other disaster, shall be exempt in an amount not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000). This insurance exemption shall not operate so as to exclude the interest of any mortgagee at the time of the insurance loss so long as the mortgagee's interest is evidenced by a written contract.   Code 1932, § 7734; Acts 1979, ch. 61, § 4; T.C.A., § 26-305.
TN Code § 26-2-305 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 2 - Exemptions—garnishment|Part 3 - Homestead Exemptions|§ 26-2-305. Family Cemeteries and Burial Lots

 Any interest or estate in a family cemetery, not in excess of one (1) acre, or in a burial lot in a cemetery, or a space in a mausoleum, or a certificate of ownership thereof, is exempt from levy of execution or attachment except as in case of homestead.   Code 1932, § 7735; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 26-306.
TN Code § 26-2-306 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 2 - Exemptions—garnishment|Part 3 - Homestead Exemptions|§ 26-2-306. Exemption Inapplicable in Certain Cases

 The homestead shall not be exempt from sale for the payment of public taxes legally assessed upon it, or from sale for the satisfaction of any debt or liability contracted for its purchase or legally incurred for improvements made thereon. It shall be exempt from seizure in criminal as well as in civil cases, but not exempt from distress or sale for taxes; or for fines and costs for voting out of the civil district, precinct or ward in which the voter lives; or for carrying deadly or concealed weapons contrary to law; or for giving away or selling intoxicating liquors on election days.
TN Code § 26-2-307 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 2 - Exemptions—garnishment|Part 3 - Homestead Exemptions|§ 26-2-307. Right of Selection

 Each individual who is entitled to a homestead exemption shall have the right to elect where the homestead shall be set apart.
TN Code § 26-2-308 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 2 - Exemptions—garnishment|Part 3 - Homestead Exemptions|§ 26-2-308. Procedure to Set Apart

 Whenever real property of an individual who is entitled to a homestead exemption thereon is levied on by execution or attachment, the individual's homestead shall be set apart in the following manner:   The officer executing the writs shall summon three (3) disinterested freeholders, not connected with the parties, and administer to them an oath to set apart the homestead out of the real estate so levied on;   The freeholders shall examine the premises and upon oath set apart the homestead, if so desired by the individual entitled to the exemption, and set out in writing the boundaries thereof, and certify that such is the homestead set apart by them, and deliver the same to the debtor; and   The remainder only of such lands so levied on or attached shall be subject to sale, which fact shall be returned on the execution.
TN Code § 26-2-309 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 2 - Exemptions—garnishment|Part 3 - Homestead Exemptions|§ 26-2-309. Sale and Reinvestment of Exempt Proceeds

 When the real estate levied on is of greater value than five thousand dollars ($5,000), and is so situated that it cannot be divided so as to set apart the homestead, the freeholders shall certify the fact, and the officer may proceed to sell the whole tract, and out of the proceeds the officer shall pay to the clerk of the court rendering the judgment, or condemning the land for sale, five thousand dollars ($5,000), to be invested under the order of the court, in the purchase of a homestead for the debtor, and only the surplus over and above five thousand dollars ($5,000) shall be applied to the payment of the execution.
TN Code § 26-2-310 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 2 - Exemptions—garnishment|Part 3 - Homestead Exemptions|§ 26-2-310. Registration of Freeholder's Certificate

 The officer shall certify upon the certificate of the freeholders that the same is their act and deed, and the debtor shall have the same registered in the register's office of the county in which the lands lie, and, when so registered, it shall vest in the individual entitled to such homestead exemption, as herein provided, a good and valid title to the land exempt from execution.
TN Code § 26-2-311 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 2 - Exemptions—garnishment|Part 3 - Homestead Exemptions|§ 26-2-311. Setting Apart for Deserted Family

 When a debtor absconds or abandons the debtor's family, the homestead shall be set apart for the use of the spouse and family, and shall be exempt in the hands of the spouse or children; and such property, on the death of the owner, shall be exempt in the hands of the surviving spouse and children, as prescribed in § 30-2-105.
TN Code § 26-2-312 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 2 - Exemptions—garnishment|Part 3 - Homestead Exemptions|§ 26-2-312. Property Purchased With or Maintained by Fraudulently Obtained Funds Ineligible for Homestead Exemption

 Property shall not be eligible, in whole or in part, for the homestead exemption provided by this part, if the property has been purchased with or maintained by fraudulently obtained funds or if ownership of the property has been maintained using fraudulently obtained funds. A court shall be required to find by a preponderance of the evidence that the property was purchased with or maintained by funds obtained by defrauding another person or that ownership of the property was maintained by funds obtained by defrauding another person in order to disqualify the property from eligibility for the homestead exemption.
TN Code § 26-2-401 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 2 - Exemptions—garnishment|Part 4 - Executions and Garnishments in Aid of Executions|§ 26-2-401. Applicability

 This part shall apply to executions and garnishments in aid of execution in supplement to other applicable provisions of law; provided, that the contents of the Notice to Judgment Debtor required in connection with a wage garnishment shall be governed by § 26-2-216.
TN Code § 26-2-402 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 2 - Exemptions—garnishment|Part 4 - Executions and Garnishments in Aid of Executions|§ 26-2-402. Statement Showing Address, Amount Owed

 Upon requesting the issuance of an execution or garnishment, the judgment creditor, or the judgment creditor's agent or attorney, shall file a statement showing the judgment debtor's last known address, the amount owed on the judgment, and the judgment creditor's address for mailing any notice required under this part. If a clerk issues an execution or a garnishment without demand, the clerk shall ascertain such information from the court records. The judgment debtor's last known address as furnished by the judgment creditor or as ascertained by the clerk shall be included on the notice required by § 26-2-204 or by § 26-2-216.
TN Code § 26-2-403 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 2 - Exemptions—garnishment|Part 4 - Executions and Garnishments in Aid of Executions|§ 26-2-403. Notice Required

  No clerk shall issue an execution or garnishment unless it provides the notice required by § 26-2-404 or by § 26-2-216. No clerk shall issue a garnishment unless it also contains the notice required by § 26-2-203.   No sheriff or other officer shall summon a garnishee unless the garnishment provides the notice required by § 26-2-404 or by § 26-2-216, and unless it provides the notice required by § 26-2-203.
TN Code § 26-2-405 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 2 - Exemptions—garnishment|Part 4 - Executions and Garnishments in Aid of Executions|§ 26-2-405. Copy of Execution Furnished Judgment Debtor

 A sheriff or other officer who levies an execution upon property of a judgment debtor shall immediately thereafter on that same or next working day provide the judgment debtor with a copy of the execution that describes the property levied upon and with a completed copy of the notice set forth in § 26-2-404 by mailing them first class, postage prepaid, to the judgment debtor at the address provided pursuant to § 26-2-402, or by actual delivery to the judgment debtor.
TN Code § 26-2-406 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 2 - Exemptions—garnishment|Part 4 - Executions and Garnishments in Aid of Executions|§ 26-2-406. Mailing of Garnishment to Judgment Debtor

 A sheriff or other officer who summons a garnishee shall provide the garnishee with three (3) copies of the garnishment summons providing the completed notice required by § 26-2-404 or by § 26-2-216, whichever is applicable. On that same or the next working day, the garnishee shall determine if such garnishee possesses or controls money or property of the judgment debtor; and if so, within that same time period shall furnish a copy of the garnishment summons and notice by mailing them first class, postage prepaid, to the judgment debtor's last known address as shown by the garnishee's records, or by actual delivery to the judgment debtor. If the address as shown by the garnishee's records differs from that provided by the creditor as shown on the bottom of the completed notice, the garnishee shall also mail a copy of the garnishment and notice to the judgment debtor at the latter address by first class mail, postage prepaid.
TN Code § 26-2-407 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 2 - Exemptions—garnishment|Part 4 - Executions and Garnishments in Aid of Executions|§ 26-2-407. Motion to Quash Execution or Garnishment

 A judgment debtor may assert exemption rights after the service of an execution or garnishment by filing a motion to quash the garnishment or execution. The motion to quash must be filed within the following time periods:   Twenty (20) days from the mailing of the notice required by § 26-2-404 in the event of a levy of execution;   Twenty (20) days from the withholding of wages by a garnishee/employer pursuant to a wage garnishment; and   With respect to any other garnishment, twenty (20) days from the mailing of the notice required by § 26-2-404 pursuant to that garnishment.
TN Code § 26-2-408 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 2 - Exemptions—garnishment|Part 4 - Executions and Garnishments in Aid of Executions|§ 26-2-408. Property Determined to Be Exempt

 No sheriff or other officer shall conduct an execution sale, and no clerk shall pay out funds received pursuant to an execution or garnishment until the judgment debtor's time has expired for filing a motion to quash, or until a judicial determination has been made on such motion. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the ability of the judgment creditor and the judgment debtor to resolve by agreed order the judgment debtor's motion asserting exemption rights. When property has been determined to be exempt by agreement or by judicial determination, the property shall be immediately released to the judgment debtor.
TN Code § 26-2-409 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 2 - Exemptions—garnishment|Part 4 - Executions and Garnishments in Aid of Executions|§ 26-2-409. Copies of Forms to Be Furnished

 The University of Tennessee county technical assistance service shall provide clerks of court with forms for judgment debtors to use in filing a motion to quash an execution or garnishment on the ground of exemption rights, in otherwise asserting their exemption rights, or in filing a motion to pay a judgment by installments. Clerks shall provide a copy of these forms to judgment debtors upon request. Nothing herein shall be construed as prohibiting clerks from printing an appropriate form motion to quash on the reverse side of the notices required by §§ 26-2-404 and 26-2-216, so that the judgment debtor may assert applicable exemption rights.
TN Code § 26-2-410 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 2 - Exemptions—garnishment|Part 4 - Executions and Garnishments in Aid of Executions|§ 26-2-410. Hearing on Exemptions — Notice

 Upon the filing of a motion to quash or other motion claiming exemption rights by the judgment debtor, the clerk shall immediately schedule a hearing on the motion. The court shall conduct the hearing and adjudicate the matter promptly, and in no event later than fourteen (14) days from the filing of the motion. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the ability of judges to interchange with each other as provided in title 17, chapter 2. The clerk shall provide reasonable notice to the judgment debtor and creditor of the time, date, and place of hearing.
TN Code § 26-6-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 6 - Enforcement of Foreign Judgments|Part 1 - Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act|§ 26-6-101. Short Title

 This part may be cited as the “Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act.”
TN Code § 26-6-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 6 - Enforcement of Foreign Judgments|Part 1 - Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act|§ 26-6-102. Construction for Uniformity

 This part shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact it.
TN Code § 26-6-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 6 - Enforcement of Foreign Judgments|Part 1 - Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act|§ 26-6-103. “Foreign Judgment” Defined

 As used in this part, “foreign judgment” means any judgment, decree, or order of a court of the United States or of any other court which is entitled to full faith and credit in this state.
TN Code § 26-6-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 6 - Enforcement of Foreign Judgments|Part 1 - Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act|§ 26-6-104. Effect and Treatment of Authenticated Foreign Judgment — Foreign Defamation Judgment

  A copy of any foreign judgment authenticated in accordance with the acts of congress or the statutes of this state may be filed in the office of the clerk of any circuit or chancery court of this state.   The clerk shall treat the foreign judgment in the same manner as a judgment of a court of record of this state.   A judgment so filed has the same effect and is subject to the same procedures, defenses and proceedings for reopening, vacating, or staying as a judgment of a court of record of this state and may be enforced or satisfied in like manner.   For the purpose of rendering declaratory relief with respect to a person's liability for a foreign defamation judgment and determining whether the foreign defamation judgment should be deemed nonrecognizable under § 26-6-108, this state's courts have personal jurisdiction over any person who obtains a foreign defamation judgment against any person who:  Is a resident of this state;   Is a person or entity amenable to the jurisdiction of this state;   Has assets in this state; or   May have to take action in this state to comply with the foreign defamation judgment.
TN Code § 26-6-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 6 - Enforcement of Foreign Judgments|Part 1 - Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act|§ 26-6-105. Service of Process — Enforcement Proceeding Delayed

  At the time of the filing of the foreign judgment, the judgment creditor or the judgment creditor's lawyer shall make and file with the clerk of the court an affidavit setting forth the name and last known post office address of the judgment debtor, and the judgment creditor.   Promptly upon the filing of the foreign judgment and affidavit, the clerk of the court wherein the judgment is filed shall issue a summons to be delivered for service to any person authorized to serve process. This person shall serve the summons and return endorsed thereon shall be proof of the time and manner of service.   No execution or other process for enforcement of a foreign judgment filed hereunder shall issue until thirty (30) days after the date a summons has been served upon the judgment debtor.
TN Code § 26-6-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 6 - Enforcement of Foreign Judgments|Part 1 - Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act|§ 26-6-106. Appeal or Stay of Judgment

  If the judgment debtor shows the court of this state that an appeal from the foreign judgment is pending or will be taken, or that a stay of execution has been granted, the court shall stay enforcement of the foreign judgment until the appeal is concluded, the time for appeal expires, or the stay of execution expires or is vacated.   If the judgment debtor shows the court of this state any ground upon which enforcement of a judgment of any court of this state would be stayed, the court shall stay enforcement of the foreign judgment for an appropriate period.
TN Code § 26-6-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 26 - Execution|Chapter 6 - Enforcement of Foreign Judgments|Part 1 - Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act|§ 26-6-107. Creditor's Right to Bring Enforcement Action

 The right of a judgment creditor to bring an action to enforce the creditor's judgment instead of proceeding under this part remains unimpaired.