Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 524:12

  • 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
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
All property in this state of a judgment debtor where the judgment is in favor of any state for failure to pay that state’s income tax assessed on benefits received from a pension or other retirement plan, or with respect to income earned by an employee at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard of Portsmouth, New Hampshire shall be exempt from attachment, garnishment of wages, trustee process, or forced sale under process of any court, and no such judgment or execution based thereon shall be a lien on such property.