Terms Used In Missouri Laws 71.207

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • 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
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020

Whenever any municipality has established pension plans for the pensioning of the salaried employees of such city and the surviving spouses and minor children of deceased employees, the right of any person to a benefit, any other right accrued or accruing to any person under the provisions of such pension plan and the funds created under such pension plan are exempt from any tax of the state of Missouri and are not subject to execution, garnishment, attachment or any other process whatsoever and are unassignable unless specifically so provided in such plan.