Hawaii Revised Statutes 353-22 – Earnings exempt from garnishment, etc
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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 353-22
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- Committed person: means a person committed to the custody of the director of corrections and rehabilitation for imprisonment pursuant to chapter 706, including a probationer serving a term of imprisonment pursuant to section 706-624(2)(a) and a misdemeanant or petty misdemeanant sentenced pursuant to section 706-663. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 353-1
- Department: means the department of corrections and rehabilitation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 353-1
- Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
No moneys earned by a committed person and held by the department, to any amount whatsoever, shall be subject to garnishment, levy, or any like process of attachment for any cause or claim against the committed person, except as provided for in section 353-22.5.